Filipinos in Austria
Austro-Filipinos | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 30,000 estimated 0.34% of the Austrian population (2021) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Vienna and Lower Austria
The following numbers (from 2020) represent only Filipino Austrians born in the Philippines | |
| Austria in Total | 13,499 (0.15%) |
| Vienna | 8,968 (0.47%) |
| Lower Austria | 1,302 (0.08%) |
| Upper Austria | 730 (0.05%) |
| Salzburg | 701 (0.13%) |
| Vorarlberg | 503 (0.13%) |
| Styria | 440 (0.04%) |
| Tyrol | 412 (0.05%) |
| Carinthia | 272 (0.05%) |
| Burgenland | 121 (0.04%) |
| Languages | |
| German (Austrian), English (American English, Philippine English), Tagalog (Filipino), Visayan languages, Ilocano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Bikolano and various other languages of the Philippines | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism, Protestant, Iglesia ni Cristo and other denominations Minority: Irreligion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Overseas Filipinos, Filipinos, Filipino Mestizo | |
Filipino Austrians (German: Austro-Filipinos or Filipino Österreicher; Filipino: Pilipinong Austriano) are Austrians of full or partial Filipino descent and are part of the so-called Overseas Filipinos. When excluding Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian refugees, Filipinos make up the fourth largest group of Asians within Austria, behind Iranian, Chinese and Indian people and form the largest Southeast-Asian community in the country. The majority of them live in Vienna, the capital of Austria.
It is estimated by the Filipino ambassador to Austria that 30,000 Filipino Austrians currently live in Austria. 13,499 Filipino Austrians were born in the Philippines, with 5,823 of them holding Philippine citizenship.
Little is known about the history of Filipinos in Austria before the 1970s, primarily because immigration records of that era classified Filipinos as either "Other" or "Asian". However, Filipino migration to Austria in relatively high numbers started in the 1970s, when the city government of Vienna initiated a program to recruit Filipino nursing staff to combat the nurse shortage, which still remains politically relevant in Austria.