| Organisation / Group | Aim | status |
|---|---|---|
| International Organization of the French-speaking World | founded around a common language to promote and spread the cultures of its members and to reinforce cultural and technical cooperation between them | observer |
| Asian Development Bank | to promote regional economic cooperation | nonregional member |
| African Development Bank Group | to promote economic development and social progress | nonregional member |
| Black Sea Economic Cooperation Zone | to enhance regional stability through economic cooperation | observer |
| Organization of American States | to promote regional peace and security as well as economic and social development | observer |
| Southeast European Cooperative Initiative | to encourage cooperation among participating states and to facilitate their integration into European structures | observer |
| United Nations Security Council | to maintain international peace and security | temporary |
| Australia Group | to consult on and coordinate export controls related to chemical and biological weapons | |
| Bank for International Settlements | to promote cooperation among central banks in international financial settlements | |
| Council of Europe | to promote increased unity and quality of life in Europe | |
| Central European Initiative | to form an economic and political cooperation group for the region between the Adriatic and the Baltic Seas | |
| European Organization for Nuclear Research | to foster nuclear research for peaceful purposes only | |
| Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council | to discuss cooperation on mutual political and security issues | |
| European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | to facilitate the transition of seven centrally planned economies in Europe (Bulgaria, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, former USSR, and former Yugoslavia) to market economies by committing 60% of its loans to privatization | |
| European Investment Bank | to promote economic development of the EU and its predecessors, the EEC and the EC | |
| European Space Agency | to promote peaceful cooperation in space research and technology | |
| Food and Agriculture Organization | to raise living standards and increase availability of agricultural products;a UN specialized agency | |
| Financial Action Task Force | to develop and promote policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing | |
| Group of 9 | to discuss matters of mutual interest on an informal basis | |
| Inter-American Development Bank | to promote economic and social development in Latin America | |
| International Atomic Energy Agency | to promote peaceful uses of atomic energy | |
| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | to provide economic development loans;a UN specialized agency | |
| International Civil Aviation Organization | to promote international cooperation in civil aviation;a UN specialized agency | |
| International Chamber of Commerce | to promote free trade and private enterprise and to represent business interests at national and international levels | |
| International Criminal Court | to hold all individuals and countries accountable to international laws of conduct; to specify international standards of conduct;to provide an important mechanism for implementing these standards;to ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice | |
| International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement | to promote worldwide humanitarian aid through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in wartime, and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS;formerly League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies or LORCS) in peacetime | |
| International Development Association | to provide economic loans for low-income countries;UN specialized agency and IBRD affiliate | |
| International Energy Agency | to promote cooperation on energy matters, especially emergency oil sharing and relations between oil consumers and oil producers;established by the OECD | |
| International Fund for Agricultural Development | to promote agricultural development;a UN specialized agency | |
| International Finance Corporation | to support private enterprise in international economic development;a UN specialized agency and IBRD affiliate | |
| International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies | to organize, coordinate, and direct international relief actions;to promote humanitarian activities;to represent and encourage the development of National Societies;to bring help to victims of armed conflicts, refugees, and displaced people;to reduce the vulnerability of people through development programs | |
| International Labor Organization | to deal with world labor issues;a UN specialized agency | |
| International Monetary Fund | to promote world monetary stability and economic development;a UN specialized agency | |
| International Maritime Organization | to deal with international maritime affairs;a UN specialized agency | |
| International Criminal Police Organization | to promote international cooperation among police authorities in fighting crime | |
| International Olympic Committee | to promote the Olympic ideals and administer the Olympic games: 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK;2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia | |
| International Organization for Migration | to facilitate orderly international emigration and immigration | |
| Inter-Parliamentary Union | fosters contacts among parliamentarians, considers and expresses views of international interest and concern with the purpose of bringing about action by parliaments and parliamentarians, contributes to the defense and promotion of human rights, contributes to better knowledge of representative institutions | |
| International Organization for Standardization | to promote the development of international standards with a view to facilitating international exchange of goods and services and to developing cooperation in the sphere of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity | |
| International Telecommunications Satellites Organization | to act as a watchdog over Intelsat, Ltd., a private company, to make sure it provides on a global and non-discriminatory basis public telecommunication services | |
| International Telecommunication Union | to deal with world telecommunications issues;a UN specialized agency | |
| International Trade Union Confederation | to promote the trade union movement | |
| Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency | encourages flow of foreign direct investment among member countries by offering investment insurance, consultation, and negotiation on conditions for foreign investment and technical assistance;a UN specialized agency | |
| United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad | to create the security and conditions which will to contribute to the protection of refugees, displaced persons, and citizens in danger, to facilitate the provision of humanitarian assistance in eastern Chad and the northeastern Central African Republic, to create favorable conditions for the reconstruction and economic and social development of these areas | |
| United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara | to supervise the cease-fire and conduct a referendum in Western Sahara;established by the UN Security Council | |
| Nuclear Energy Agency | to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy;associated with OECD | |
| Nuclear Suppliers Group | to establish guidelines for exports of nuclear materials, processing equipment for uranium enrichment, and technical information to countries of proliferation concern and regions of conflict and instability | |
| Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | to promote economic cooperation and development | |
| Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | to enforce the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction;to provide a forum for consultation and cooperation among the signatories of the Convention | |
| Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe | to foster the implementation of human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy, and the rule of law;to act as an instrument of early warning, conflict prevention, and crisis management;and to serve as a framework for conventional arms control and confidence building measures | |
| Paris Club | to provide a forum for debtor countries to negotiate rescheduling of debt service payments or loans extended by governments or official agencies of participating countries;to help restore normal trade and project finance to debtor countries | |
| Permanent Court of Arbitration | to facilitate the settlement of international disputes | |
| Partnership for Peace | to expand and intensify political and military cooperation throughout Europe, increase stability, diminish threats to peace, and build relationships by promoting the spirit of practical cooperation and commitment to democratic principles that underpin NATO;program under the auspices of NATO | |
| Schengen Convention | to allow free movement within an area without internal border controls | |
| United Nations | to maintain international peace and security and to promote cooperation involving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems | |
| United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | to promote international trade | |
| United Nations Disengagement Observer Force | to observe the 1973 Arab-Israeli cease-fire;established by the UN Security Council | |
| United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization | to promote cooperation in education, science, and culture | |
| United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus | to serve as a peacekeeping force between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus;established by the UN Security Council | |
| United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | to ensure the humanitarian treatment of refugees and find permanent solutions to refugee problems | |
| United Nations Industrial Development Organization | UN specialized agency that promotes industrial development especially among the members | |
| United Nations Truce Supervision Organization | to supervise the 1948 Arab-Israeli cease-fire;currently supports timely deployment of reinforcements to other peacekeeping operations in the region as needed;initially established by the UN Security Council | |
| World Tourism Organization | to promote tourism as a means of contributing to economic development, international understanding, and peace | |
| Universal Postal Union | to promote international postal cooperation;a UN specialized agency | |
| World Customs Organization | to promote international cooperation in customs matters | |
| World Federation of Trade Unions | to promote the trade union movement | |
| World Health Organization | to deal with health matters worldwide;a UN specialized agency | |
| World Intellectual Property Organization | to furnish protection for literary, artistic, and scientific works;a UN specialized agency | |
| World Meteorological Organization | to sponsor meteorological cooperation;a UN specialized agency | |
| World Trade Organization | to provide a forum to resolve trade conflicts between members and to carry on negotiations with the goal of further lowering and/or eliminating tariffs and other trade barriers | |
| Zangger Committee | to establish guidelines for the export control provisions of the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) | |
| Economic and Monetary Union | ||
| European Union |
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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria's status remained unclear for a decade. A State Treaty signed in 1955 ended the occupation, recognized Austria's independence, and forbade unification with Germany. A constitutional law that same year declared the country's "perpetual neutrality" as a condition for Soviet military withdrawal. The Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and Austria's entry into the European Union in 1995 have altered the meaning of this neutrality. A prosperous, democratic country, Austria entered the EU Economic and Monetary Union in 1999. In January 2009, Austria assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2009-10 term.
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Religions
Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12% (2001 census)
Natural Resources
oil, coal, lignite, timber, iron ore, copper, zinc, antimony, magnesite, tungsten, graphite, salt, hydropower
Export commodities
machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs
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- Area of Austria
- Birth rate of Austria
- Death rate of Austria
- Electricity production of Austria
- GDP - per capita (PPP) of Austria
- GDP growth rate of Austria
- GDP of Austria
- HIV/AIDS - Adult Prevalence Rate of Austria
- HIV/AIDS - deaths of Austria
- Industrial production growth rate of Austria
- Infant Mortality Rate of Austria
- Inflation rate of Austria
- Life Expectancy at Birth of Austria
- Location of Austria
- Natural gas consumption of Austria
- Natural gas production of Austria
- Net Migration Rate of Austria
- Oil consumption of Austria
- Oil production of Austria
- People living with HIV/AIDS of Austria
- Population growth rate of Austria
- Population size of Austria
- Total Fertility Rate of Austria
- Unemployment rate of Austria
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