AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
45 
A comparison in area and population between the Austrian Repub- 
lic and several of the other small European countries in 1920-21 is 
given in Table 54. 
Table 54. — Area and population of Austria, compared with Bavaria, Belgium, 
Netherlands, and Switzerland, 1920-1921. 
Area. 
Population. 
Country. 
Total. 
Per square 
mile. 
Square miles. 
32,432 
30,562 
11, 752 
12, 582 
15, 975 
Number . 
6, 428, 000 
7, 140, 340 
7, 462, 455 
6,865,314 
3,880,320 
Number. 
198 
234 
635 
546 
Switzerland 
243 
Source: Statesman's Yearbook, 1923, except for Austria, for which area and population are obtained 
directly from official sources. 
Austria's situation is similar to that of Switzerland. Lying in 
the center of Europe, the country is distinctly mountainous in 
character and its agricultural production is not sufficient to meet 
the domestic consumption requirements of the population. It has 
always been necessary for Austria to import large quantities of 
foodstuffs and to cover the balance of trade by industrial and com- 
mercial activities. 
The place of agriculture among the other activities of Austria is 
indicated in Table 55. In this table the statistics for Burgenland 
(recently ceded to Austria by Hungary) are recorded separately. 
Table 55. — Population of Austria, 1910 and 1920, and occupations of the inhabit- 
ants in 1910. 
POPULATION. 
Country. 
1910 
1920 
Loss. 
Austria (without Burgenland) 
Number. 
6, 354, 919 
i 296, 891 
Per cent. 
95.5 
4.5 
Number. 
6,131,445 
i 296, 787 
Per cent. 
95.4 
4.6 
Number. 
223, 474 
104 
Per cent. 
3.5 
Total 
6, 651, 810 
100.0 
6, 428, 232 
100.0 
223, 578 
3.4 
OCCUPATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS, 1910.2 
Country. ^^^f ^ 
Lumbering, forestry, 
fishing, hunting, etc. 
All other callings. 
Austria (without Burgenland) 
Number. 
1,832,410 
175, 618 
Per cent. 
28.8 
59.2 
Number. 
76,425 
1,523 
Per cent. 
1.2 
0.5 
Number. 
4, 446, 084 
119,750 
Per cent. 
70.0 
40.3 
Total..../. 
2, 008, 028 
30.2 
77, 948 
1.2 
4, 565, 834 
6S.6 
1 Provisional figures. 
2 At the extraordinary census of 1920 the occupation of the inhabitants was not taken. 
Note. — The statistics in Tables 55 and 56 are the latest revised figures. These 
figures, like most of the numerical data in this report, were specially prepared 
for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics by Court-Councilor Dr. W. Thalmayer, 
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of 
Austria. 
