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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. [41]
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
The proportion of Christians has declined significantly since 1980, when they constituted about 94% of the population; during the same timespan, unaffiliated Swiss residents have grown from about 4% to 31% of the population, and people professing non-Christian religions have grown from about 1% to 7.2% of the population. [4]
The government does not collect or publish statistics on religious affiliation. A 2011 report by the King Baudouin Foundation estimates the religious affiliation of the population to be 50% Roman Catholic, 32% without affiliation, 9% atheist, 6% Muslim, 2.5% other Christian, 0.4% Jewish, and 0.3% Buddhist. Other religious groups include Hindus ...
Own work, data taken from UN World Population Prospects Data Portal. NOTE: This file has important statistical clarifications attached, please see description for more information. NOTE: This file has important statistical clarifications attached, please see description for more information.
The population is about 9 million (2023 est.). [210] Population growth is projected to continue to 2035, due mostly to immigration. Like most of Europe, Switzerland faces an ageing population, with a fertility rate close to replacement level. [211] Switzerland has one of the world's oldest populations, with an average age of 44.5 years. [212]
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
While the Muslim population continues to grow rapidly, the rate of growth has decreased after the early 1990s. The growth rate corresponded to a factor of 2.7 over the 1980s (10% per annum), a factor of 2.0 over the 1990s (7% p.a.), and a factor of about 1.6 over the 2000s (5% p.a.).