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Population growth in Switzerland is mostly due to immigration: in 2009, there have been 78,286 live births recorded (74% Swiss, 26% foreign nationalities), contrasting with 62,476 deaths (92% Swiss, 8% foreigners). Thus, of the population growth rate of 1.1% during 2009, about 0.2% are due to births, and 0.9% due to immigration.
Switzerland's 13 institutes of higher learning enrolled 99,600 students in the academic year of 2001–02. About 25% of the adult population hold a diploma of higher learning. According to the CIA World Factbook data for 2003, 99% of the Swiss population aged 15 and over could read and write, with the rate being identical for both sexes.
A Swiss travel document allows travel by political refugees and foreigners who do not have national passports and are living in Switzerland with a permit designated B (Right to Stay) or C (permanent resident).
Families living adjacent to us, many of whom had lived there for years, were strangers to one another. ... My kids can move around independently. In Switzerland, most of our kids' new friends ...
This is an alphabetical list of towns or cities (these English terms can be used interchangeably, as there is no official differentiation), which follows the FSO's definition (German: Statistische Städte 2012, French: Villes statistiques 2012), as well as places with historic town rights (h) and/or market towns (m). [2]: 14–19
Switzerland has a relatively high number of small municipalities, with a population of 1,000 or less, especially in rural areas. Because of the increasing difficulty in providing professional government services and in finding volunteers for political offices in small municipalities, the cantons tend to encourage voluntary mergers of ...
Three of the twenty municipalities have granted foreigners voting rights: Wald (1999), Speicher (2002) and Trogen (2004). [8] In Speicher, Switzerland's first foreigner was elected to political office – a Dutchman who has since naturalised as a Swiss citizen. [9]
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