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Switzerland

9,092,436

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+86.85K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+26.6%from 7.18M
Life expectancy84.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.29births per woman · 2024
Urban population85.7%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Switzerland is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.4%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+0.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+37.25Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Switzerland look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.34M in 2050—4.7% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20248.92M
  2. 20509.34M
  3. 21009.13M
Median age in 205047.8years
Births in 205081.64Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050107.22Kduring the year
Life expectancy87.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19605.33M
  2. 19706.18M
  3. 19806.32M
  4. 19906.72M
  5. 20007.18M
  6. 20107.82M
  7. 20208.64M
  8. 20259.09M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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