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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]
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 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 ...
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.
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
German citizens have mostly settled in Zürich and the city's wider metropolitan area. Already at the historical maximum of German presence in Switzerland in 1910, German population in Zürich was as high as 41,000 or 22% of the city's total population. As of 2009, German population in Zürich was at about 30,000, or close to 8%. [4]
be able to live, work, study, buy property, and open up a business anywhere in the EU (through the bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the EU), Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway; Male Swiss citizens, including dual citizens, can be required to perform military service or civilian service (women can do it voluntarily).
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.