Share of Students With Foreign Citizenship Rises to One in Five
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- About 21% of students in Austria now hold a citizenship other than Austrian, up from roughly 9% in 2006.
- The figure represents 238,500 students out of around 1.14 million nationwide.
- Vienna has the highest reported share, at 38%, while the proportion of students with a non-German everyday language has fallen slightly.
The share of students holding a foreign passport has more than doubled in Austria over the past two decades. Around 21% of schoolchildren and young people now have a citizenship other than Austrian, compared with roughly 9% in 2006.
In absolute terms, that amounts to 238,500 students out of a total school population of about 1.14 million. The distribution varies considerably by region and by type of school.
Vienna currently records the highest proportion, at 38%. At the same time, the share of students who use a language other than German in everyday life has declined slightly. The figures show that citizenship and everyday language do not follow exactly the same pattern in Austria’s schools.
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Originally published by Der Standard in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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