Swiss population hits 9 million for the first time
The permanent resident Swiss population has, for the first time ever, passed nine million people. At the second quarter of 2024, 9,002,763 people were living permanently in Switzerland, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) reported on Thursday, 19th September.
It took twelve years for the Swiss population to climb up from eight to nine million, reaching the former in 2012. That is the same amount of time that it took to increase from five to six million, doing so between 1955 and 1967. 6,560,361 of the permanent resident population were Swiss while 2,442,402 were foreign nationals, according to the FSO.
Approximately 5.460 million people were reportedly between the ages of 20 and 64 while children along with young adults made up nearly 1.790 million people. For those aged 65 and over, the number amounted to 1.753 million people.
Regionally, nearly 1.954 million people were living in the Central Plateau regin. That includes the cantons of Bern, Fribourg, Solothurn, Neuchâtel, and Jura. The Lake Geneva region, including the cantons of Vaud, Valais, and Geneva, has a population of nearly 1.745 million people meanwhile. The north-western Swiss cantons of Basel-City, Basel-County, and Aargau are home to 1.231 million people.
The canton of Zurich meanwhile is home to nearly 1.613 million while the eastern Swiss cantons of Glarus, Schaffhausen, the two cantons of Appenzell, St. Gallen, Graubünden and Thurgau have a population of 1.243 million people. The central cantons of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden, and Zug had a population of 858,400 people while the population of Ticino was around 358,000 people.
At the end of July 2023 there were over nine million people living in the country for the first time ever but that figure included non-permanent foreign residents including asylum seekers. The permanent resident population was around 8.9 million people half way into 2023. It’s only now that the milestone had been surpassed.
