Switzerland People:
Population:
7,489,370 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 16.6% (male:643,497; female:597,565)
15-64 years: 68% (male:2,570,544; female:2,522,365)
65 years and over: 15.4% (male:472,769; female:682,630) (2005)
Median age:
total: 39.77 years
male: 38.75 years
female: 40.81 years (2005)
Population growth rate:
0.49% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
9.77 births
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
8.48 deaths
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
3.58 migrant(s)
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1.08 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 0.69 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2005)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 4.39 deaths
/
1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 4.9 deaths
/
1,000 live births
female: 3.86 deaths
/
1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total: 80.39 years (2005 est.)
male: 77.58 years
female: 83.36 years
Total fertility rate:
1.42 children born/woman (2005 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%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 4.3%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1% (2000)
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)
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% (1980)
male: NA
female: NA (1980)
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