| Demographics of Switzerland | |
|---|---|
 Population of Switzerland 2019 Swiss and non-Swiss residents | |
| Population | 8 981 565 (21 June 2024 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 | 1.33 children born/woman (2023 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 |
Switzerland has 9 million inhabitants, as of June 2024.[4] 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).
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.[5]
- ^ "Bevölkerungsbestand am Ende des 2. Quartal 2019" [Recent monthly and quarterly figures: provisional data] (XLS) (official statistics) (in German, French, and Italian). Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Confederation. 19 September 2019. 1155-1500. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ "Life expectancy - Federal Statistical Office". Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ "Switzerland". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ "Schweiz zählt über neun Millionen Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 19 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
- ^ "Population by migration status".