Austria is a remarkable country.

The population growth of Austria over 56 years is remarkably stable. The overall population growth was 1.699 million people. That averages to about 30,000+ more Austrians per year. That is very different than the USA.

Austria has seen a 0.35 population growth with a falling death rate.

...87,675 children (click here) were born in Austria in 2016, which corresponds to a crude birth rate of 10.0 live births per 1 000 population. The total fertility rate was 1.53 children per woman. This average is therefore well below the “replacement level” of approx. 2 children per woman. Measured by the “net reproduction rate”, the generation currently at reproductive ages will numerically reproduce itself by 74 per cent. The fact that the period fertility is so low in Austria is also due to the ever rising age at childbirth (“postponement” of births). The mean fertility age in 2016 was 30.6 years, i.e. 0.4 years higher than in 2012....

In 2015, death rate for Austria was 9.6 per 1,000 people. Death rate of Austria fell gradually from 12.5 per 1,000 people in 1966 to 9.6 per 1,000 people in 2015.

This degree of population stability creates a country with a very a very stable reality when it comes to the needs of the people.

Crude death rate indicates the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.