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Austria

Austrian Culture Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > All drinks 13.24 2005 21st out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Beer 6.7 2005 6th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Homemade and illegal drinks 0.64 2005 124th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Legal sources 12.6 2005 7th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Other alcoholic drinks 0.4 2005 39th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Spirits 1.6 2005 72nd out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Wine 4.1 2005 15th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Litres of pure alcohol drunk per year 11.08 2003 15th out of 178
Food and drink > Alcohol > Standard drink size 6 g 2008 17th out of 17
Food and drink > Beer consumption 888 million L 2014 20th out of 40
Food and drink > Cheese consumption per capita per year 19.9 kg 2011 8th out of 20
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet date July 21, 1977 2012
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet location Schwarzenbergplatz , Vienna 2012
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet notes see McDonald's Austria 2012
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Notes First entered the country in 1970 but withdrew. Returned in 2005 with a store in Vienna . 2014
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Owner or major operator Queensway Restaurants Ltd 2014
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Year entered 2,005 2014 8th out of 22
Food and drink > Milk consumption per capita 235.11 kg 2007 23th out of 99
Happy Planet Index 47.1 2012 48th out of 50
Pets > Animal cropping (legal status) Banned 2001
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Anti-discrimination laws Some 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > LGBT individual may petition to adopt a child Yes 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Legality of homosexual acts Legal since 1971 UN decl. sign. 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Recognition of gay relationships Yes (since 2010) 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex adoption / Biological step-child adoption only 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex couple may jointly petition to adopt a child No 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex couples are allowed to foster or stepchild foster Yes (except state of Lower Austria) 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex marriage No 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex partner may petition to adopt partner's child Yes 2014
Sexuality > Sexually experienced 15-year-old boys 21.7% 2012 20th out of 24
Sexuality > Sexually experienced 15-year-old girls 17.9% 2012 13th out of 24
Smoking > Cigarettes per adult per year 1,650 2014 22nd out of 184
Smoking > Tobacco vending machine legal status Sales prohibited to under 16s. Machines must attempt to verify a customer's age by requiring the insertion of a debit card or mobile phone verification. 2008
Tobacco > Purchase age 16 2014 83th out of 88
Well being > Experienced well-being 7.3 2012 5th out of 50
World Heritage Sites 9 2014 19th out of 140

SOURCES: Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff. ; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation. p. 273 ff. ; World Health Organization. Source tables; Wikipedia: Standard drink (Standard drinks as defined by various countries) (ICAP Report 5 - "What is a 'standard drink'". URL: [1] . Accessed on June 19, 2008.); Per Capita Beer Consumption by Country in 2012, Kirin Holdings Company. Table 3.; Wikipedia: Cheese (Total cheese consumption per capita per year) ("Total and Retail Cheese Consumption – Kilograms per Capita" . Canadian Dairy Information Centre . Retrieved 2013-05-20 ., , Cidilait, ''Le fromage'', Cheese Consumption Continues to Rise); Wikipedia: List of countries with McDonald's restaurants (Countries and territories with a McDonald's outlet); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Africa); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Asia); Wikipedia: List of countries by milk consumption per capita ("Countries by milk consumption per capita" . "Countries by consumptions per capita" .); http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/; Wikipedia: Cropping (animal) (Status by country); Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Australasia); Wikipedia: LGBT adoption (European laws on adoption by same-sex couples); Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Central Asia); Wikipedia: LGBT rights in Asia (Central Asia); Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Central Europe); Wikipedia: Virginity (Prevalence of sexually experienced 15-year-olds based on self-reports) (Godeau, Emmanuelle; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Vignes, Ce´line; Ross, Jim; Boyce, Will; Todd, Joanna. "Contraceptive Use by 15-Year-Old Students at Their Last Sexual Intercourse Results From 24 Countries" . Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 162 (1) . Retrieved 14 January 2012 ., See here and pages 47-49 for views on what constitutes virginity loss and therefore sexual intercourse or other sexual activity; source discusses how gay and lesbian individuals define virginity loss, and how the majority of researchers and heterosexuals define virginity loss/"technical virginity" by whether or not a person has engaged in penile-vaginal sex. Laura M. Carpenter (2005). Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences . NYU Press . pp. 295 pages. ISBN 0-8147-1652-0 . Retrieved October 9, 2011 . A. Leigh, Jennifer (June 27, 2009). "Male Virginity Myths" . Psychology Today . Retrieved October 9, 2011 ., Bozon, Michael. 'At what age do women and men have their first sexual intercourse? World comparisons and recent trends'. Population and Societies 391 (2003) 1–4.); http://www.nuigalway.ie/hbsc/documents/godeau_2008_contraceptive_use_apam_1621_6673.pdf, Emmanuelle Godeau, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Celine Vignes, Jim Ross, Will Boyce, Joanna Todd, ARCH PEDIATR ADOLESC MED/VOL 162 (NO. 1), JAN 2008. p 2.; Wikipedia: List of countries by cigarette consumption per capita (List); Wikipedia: Cigarette machine (Tobacco vending machine prevalence by country) ("Japanese smokers to face age test" . BBC . 2008-12-06 . Retrieved 2008-03-07 .); Wikipedia: Smoking age; Wikipedia: Table of World Heritage Sites by country (Table of World Heritage Sites)

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Austria Culture Profiles (Subcategories)

Food and drink 18 Sexuality 11
  • Austria ranked first for cereal yield > kg per hectare amongst Landlocked countries in 2008.
  • Austria ranked first for agricultural machinery > tractors > per capita amongst Heavily indebted countries in 2003.
  • Austria ranked second for agricultural machinery > tractors per 1000 amongst Christian countries in 2003.
  • Austria ranked first for agricultural machinery > tractors per 100 hectares of arable land amongst Catholic countries in 2003.

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