| Population: |
7,554,661 (July 2007 est.) |
| Age structure: |
0-14 years: 16.1% (male 630,341/female 584,167)
15-64 years: 68.2% (male 2,596,996/female 2,553,108)
65 years and over: 15.8% (male 489,895/female 700,154) (2007 est.) |
| Median age: |
total: 40.4 years
male: 39.3 years
female: 41.4 years (2007 est.) |
| Population growth rate: |
0.381% (2007 est.) |
| Birth rate: |
9.66 births/1,000 population (2007 est.) |
| Death rate: |
8.51 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.) |
| Net migration rate: |
2.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.) |
| Sex ratio: |
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.079 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.017 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female
total population: 0.969 male(s)/female (2007 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate: |
total: 4.28 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.77 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.77 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth: |
total population: 80.62 years
male: 77.8 years
female: 83.59 years (2007 est.) |
| Total fertility rate: |
1.44 children born/woman (2007 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: |
0.4% (2001 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: |
13,000 (2001 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths: |
less than 100 (2003 est.) |
| Nationality: |
noun: Swiss (singular and plural)
adjective: Swiss |
| Ethnic groups: |
German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% |
| Religions: |
Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Muslim 4.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1% (2000 census) |
| Languages: |
German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)
note: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national languages, but only the first three are official languages |
| Literacy: |
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.) |