At the end of June, more than nine million people lived in Switzerland for the first time in history - there were exactly 9,006,664. This includes not only permanent residents but also the non-permanent foreign resident population, such as asylum seekers.
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População suíça ultrapassa os nove milhões de habitantes
The permanent resident population of locals and foreigners at the end of the first half of 2023 numbered 8,902,308 people, as the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) reported on Wednesday. Some 2,369,382 people had a foreign passport.
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The permanent resident population includes the Swiss population and all people with a valid residence permit who have been in Switzerland for at least 12 months. This means that those in need of protection from Ukraine with their S status also belong to this population. At the end of June, the FSO counted 45,405 people with this status.
According to previous FSO information, 47,200 foreign people had immigrated to Switzerland by June 30, most of them from EU/EFTA states. According to the federal government, the reasons are the strong demand on the labour market and the structurally low unemployment.
At the end of the first half of the year, the non-permanent resident population included 104,356 people, as the FSO also announced. This part of the population includes people in the asylum process with a stay of less than 12 months as well as foreigners with a short-term residence permit for less than 12 months.
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