Austria

Austria: Solid Governance Scores, Rising Fiscal Debt Load

Austria's GDP stood at $534.79 billion in 2024, per the World Bank's World Development Indicators, with GDP per capita of $58,269 the same year and a population of 9.18 million. Government debt is projected at 82.1 percent of GDP for 2026 by the IMF's World Economic Outlook, a notably elevated level, while reserves stood at $14.11 billion in 2025 per IMF International Financial Statistics.

Defense spending sits at a middling level for the figures tracked in this dataset. SIPRI's 2025 military expenditure data puts outlay at roughly $6.35 billion, or 1.101 percent of GDP on SIPRI's own GDP series — a figure that should not be checked against the World Bank's $534.79 billion GDP estimate above, as the two series are not directly comparable. The Correlates of War National Material Capabilities (NMC) dataset lists 23,000 active personnel as of 2022 and a composite index of national capability (CINC) of 0.0017 for that year.

Governance indicators are strong. V-Dem's 2025 data (v15) scores Austria at 0.839 on electoral democracy, 0.757 on liberal democracy, and 0.932 on state capacity.

Energy data is largely current but includes one notably dated series. Our World in Data's energy series lists primary energy consumption of 1.484 exajoules in 2024 and electricity generation of 73.22 terawatt-hours in 2025. Oil production (9.799 TWh) and gas production (12.6 TWh), however, are both sourced to 2016 and should not be read as reflecting current domestic output, particularly for a landlocked economy whose energy posture has likely shifted substantially over the intervening decade.

Data gaps

Oil and gas production figures are a decade old (2016), considerably older than the other metrics in this bundle, and are flagged here as stale rather than current. No arms-trade, nuclear, or alliance-commitment data appears in this bundle. The SIPRI milex-to-GDP ratio is drawn from SIPRI's internal GDP series, not the World Bank's $534.79 billion WDI figure cited above, and the two should not be divided against one another.

Sources: World Bank WDI, IMF WEO, IMF IFS, SIPRI Milex, COW NMC, V-Dem v15, Our World in Data (Energy).