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 est.)

Median age:

total: 39.77 years
male: 38.75 years
female: 40.81 years (2005 est.)

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
under 15 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.69 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2005 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

total: 4.39 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.9 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.86 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

total population: 80.39 years
male: 77.58 years
female: 83.36 years (2005 est.)

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 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%, other 3.3% (2000 census)

Literacy:

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99% (1980 est.)
male: NA%
female: NA%