 Much later, between 1945 and 1960, some 40,000 Austrians entered the United States.Since the 1960s, however, Austrian immigration has been negligible, mostly because Austria is now a developed nation, where poverty and political oppression are scarce.According to the 1990 U.S. census, 948,558 people claimed be of Austrian descent (only 0.4 percent of the total population).