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Swiss population grows by 1.1 pct in 2016: report

Xinhua, April 6, 2017 Adjust font size:

A total of 8,417,700 people were living in Switzerland by the end of 2016, up 90,600 from two years ago, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) reported Thursday.

This represents a 1.1 percent increase in the Swiss population, local authorities noted that each of the confederation's 26 cantons registered a population rise over the course of last year.

FSO indicated that both natural population growth and the influx of foreigners coming to live in Switzerland accounted for this country-wide increase.

Statistics show that a quarter of Switzerland's permanent population is foreign. Representing some 2,100,100 people, the number of foreigners living on Swiss soil increased 2.5 percent from 2015.

Switzerland's large base of foreigners, who are on average younger than their Swiss counterparts, is particularly important given the country's ageing population.

FSO revealed that 18.1 percent of Switzerland's residents are 64-year-old or above, while almost as many as 20.1 percent aged below 20. Enditem