First residence permits — work

In 2016, Austria's first residence permits decreased by 7.3% compared to 2015, reaching 3,337.

Austria accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 736,930.

Austria ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.9% (from 3,244 in 2011).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.