Demographics of Switzerland
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Switzerland had a population of 8.57 million as of mid-2019.[1] Its population quadrupled over the period 1800 to 1990 (average doubling time 95 years). Population growth was steepest in the period after World War II (1.4% per annum during 1950–1970, doubling time 50 years), it slowed during the 1970s and 1980s but has since increased to 1% during the 2000s (doubling time 70 years).
Demographics of Switzerland | |
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Population | 8,570,148 (30 June 2019 est.)[1] |
Density | 208/km2 (48th) 539/sq mi |
Growth rate | 0.75% (2019 est.) |
Birth rate | 10.5 births/1,000 population (2015 est.) |
Death rate | 8.13 deaths/1,000 population (2015 est.) |
Life expectancy | 83.8 years |
• male | 81.9 years |
• female | 85.6 years[2] |
Fertility rate | 1.53 children born/woman (2019 est.) |
Infant mortality rate | 3.67 deaths/1,000 live births |
Net migration rate | 4.74 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015 est.)[3] |
Age structure | |
0–14 years | 15.23% (male 650,151 /female 612,479) |
15–64 years | 66.43% (male 2,769,885/ female 2,739,679) |
65 and over | 18.34% (male 672,024 /female 848,591) (2018 est.) |
Sex ratio | |
Total | 0.97 male(s)/female (2015 est.) |
At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female |
Under 15 | 1.05 male(s)/female |
15–64 years | 1.02 male(s)/female |
65 and over | 0.78 male(s)/female |
Nationality | |
Nationality | Swiss |
Language | |
Official | German, French, Italian, Romansh |
Spoken | English, Portuguese, Albanian, Serbian Croatian, Spanish, other |
More than 75% of the population live in the central plain, which stretches between the Alps and the Jura Mountains and from Geneva in the southwest to the High Rhine and Lake Constance in the northeast.
As of 2023, 40% of the population has a migrant background and 31% are foreign residents.[4]