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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 mountainous geography and lack of natural resources historically led the Swiss to seek economic opportunities abroad. While some immigrants did settle in the region, the influx of significant migrant groups to Switzerland began primarily in the late 19th century, coinciding with industrialization.
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.
Article 3 of the Law of 26 October 1978 on political rights states that foreigners may vote in municipal elections provided that they have been resident in the canton for at least ten years and in their respective municipality for at least 30 days. It states that foreigners enjoying the right to vote can also stand for election at municipal level.
Transition in stages until free person movement between the European Union and Switzerland. As of 2014, 23.4% of Switzerland's population are foreigners (9% in Germany). The net immigration is 80,000 people per year, 1% of the total population (three times more than e.g. in Germany, four times more than in the United States).
The Federal Act on Foreign Nationals and Integration (FNIA) (German: Ausländer- und Integrationsgesetz (AIG), French: Loi fédérale sur les étrangers et l’intégration (LEI), Italian: Legge federale sugli stranieri e la loro integrazione (LStrI)), [1] previously known as Foreign Nationals Act (FNA) until 1 January 2019, [2] is a Swiss federal law that regulates the immigration, residence ...
Switzerland has the second highest rate (almost 18% in 2003) of foreign students in tertiary education, after Australia (slightly over 18%). [ 179 ] [ 180 ] The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies , located in Geneva , is continental Europe's oldest graduate school of international and development studies.
English: Swiss and foreign born population pyramid of Switzerland in 2021 Note: This population pyramid's primary function is showing the composition of the foreign born and Swiss born population within the wider population pyramid overall. The 'Foreign' population includes only those who are born abroad and does not discriminate on citizenship.