Published in: Europe

Switzerland’s population in 2018

Author Isolated Traveller

Published on: 10/01/2020

Switzerland is a landlocked mountainous country, situtated in Western and Central Europe, Its surrounded by five countries, Austria, France, Germany, Liechtenstein and Italy. Switzerland hasn’t got one official language but four: German, French, Italian and Romansh, due to the countries diversity the population is very diverse.

The latin name for the country is Confoederatio Helvetica (Helvetic Confederation).

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Permanent resident
population[/mk_fancy_title]

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4,307,406[/mk_fancy_title]

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4,237,121[/mk_fancy_title]

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Live births[/mk_fancy_title]

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Deaths[/mk_fancy_title]

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Private households[/mk_fancy_title]

85.4 years[/mk_fancy_title]

81.7 years[/mk_fancy_title]

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Marriages[/mk_fancy_title]

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Registered partnerships[/mk_fancy_title]

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Divorces[/mk_fancy_title]

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Dissolved partnerships[/mk_fancy_title]

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Immigration[/mk_fancy_title]

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Emigration[/mk_fancy_title]

[mk_table title=”Permanent resident population by canton, 2018″]

Canton	Total Population	Swiss	Foreigners
Zurich	1,520,968	1,112,574	408,394
Bern	1,034,977	865,906	169,071
Aargau	678,207	507,783	170,424
St. Gallen	507,697	385,295	122,402
Geneva	499,480	299,540	199,940
Lucerne	409,557	333,672	75,885

* 6 Biggest Canton’s of Switzerland . The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 full and three half cantons. *[/mk_table]

[mk_table title=”Migration and acquisition of Swiss nationality”]

International migration	2018
Immigration	170,085
Swiss	23,902
Foreigners	146,183
Emigration	130,225
Swiss	31 794
Foreigners	98 431
Net migration	39 860
Swiss	– 7 892
Foreigners	47 752

[/mk_table]

Private households (%)

Married couples, non reconstituted families
Married couples, reconstituted families
Consensual union, nonreconstituted families
Consensual union, reconstituted families
Lone mothers or fathers
Same-sex couples below 1 %

There were 3.7 million private households in Switzerland. 35.5% of them comprised just one person, 27.4% two and 31.0% three or more. The average household size was 2.23 persons.

Disclaimer: All the information with in this article is from The Swiss Federal Statistical office, if any of the infomration is incorrect or misinterpreted, please let us know and we will make the correction.