Demographics of Switzerland

Demographics of Switzerland
Population of Switzerland 2019 Swiss and non-Swiss residents
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

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).

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]