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Main article: Austria
Financial system
GDP
2022
GDP size - $0.48 trillion
Industry's share of GDP is less than 17.5%
2021
GDP size - $0.48 trillion
Agriculture's share of GDP - 1.2%
2018: Tourism's share of GDP
Non-financial debt
2022: Aggregate non-financial debt
National debt
2023: State debt - 78% of GDP
2021: State debt - 83% of GDP
2017: State debt - 79% of GDP
Inflation
2022
Inflation in November - 11%
Inflation in July - 9.2%
Key rate
2020:0% Rate
Energy carriers
2024:80% of Austrian gas consumption is provided by Gazprom
Over the past 7 months, including March 2024, Gazprom has covered more than 80% of Austrian imports under a long-term contract calculated until 2040.
2023
Austria consumes more than 50% of gas flowing into the EU through Ukraine and for the first time becomes a net exporter of energy resources
Austria overflowing with Russian gas, which allows a longtime customer to Gazprom"" increase sales to their neighbors.
This country has been a hub for Russian flows for more than half a century, where storage facilities and pipelines have historically been set up to pump fuel to, Hungary,, and Germany. Italy Slovenia The state-owned company OMV has a long-term contract with Gazprom that obliges it to buy gas reaching the border.
Formally, Austria declares its desire to diversify supplies from Russia, but trade data indicate stable supplies through Ukraine, which satisfy more than half of the needs of the country's economy. The transit agreement through Ukraine ends in 2024.
Russia helped Austria to become one of the countries exporting energy resources. OMV says Gazprom delivered the agreed volumes in 2023. For the first time in 20 years, Austria has become a net exporter of energy resources.
Reduced gas consumption
2022
Return to the use of coal after restrictions on gas supplies from Russia
In June 2022, it became known that Austria was returning to the age of coal, reviving the use of the dirtiest fossil fuels for electricity generation.
The state-controlled Verbund AG, Austria's largest utility and most expensive company, was ordered on June 20 to prepare the mothballed Mellach coal plant for operation. The decision was made after Russia restricted natural gas exports amid EU sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation during the conflict in Ukraine.
Refusal to supply oil from Russia
Austria, after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, refused to purchase Russian oil, the Kurier newspaper reports, citing a representative of OMV Group.
"The volume of oil purchases in Russia has always been very low, with the outbreak of war we replaced it with another oil from the market," the newspaper quotes a representative of the Austrian company.
According to the Statistics Office of the country and the Association of the Oil Industry, in 2021 only 7.8% or 596 thousand tons of Austrian oil imports fell on the Russian Federation.
At the same time, Kazakhstan has been the most important oil supplier to Austria "for many years" - it accounts for 38.9% of all imports. Libya is in second place (22.1%), Iraq is in third (20.7%).
Austria is a member of the Three Seas Initiative, aimed at countering Russia.
2020: More than 50% of gas supplies received from Russia
Power
2023: Government contributions to pay for energy by citizens and companies reached 5% of GDP
2022: Rise in electricity prices due to pressure on Russia. Business demands lifting of sanctions
fromIn early November 2022, the business community in Austria, including 8896 companies, demanded the immediate lifting of all anti-Russian sanctions. It is noted that the calls are aimed at "preventing the threat of economic destruction and at the prosperity" of Austria.