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Population & environment

This area covers the size and make-up of the population, migration, land use, nature and the environment.

Sub-problems

  • Population growth

    Headline indicator: Permanent resident population on 31 December

    9,127,125 (2025)

  • Net migration

    Headline indicator: Net migration of the permanent resident population (persons per year)

    70,432 (2025)

  • Share of foreign nationals

    Headline indicator: Share of foreigners in the permanent resident population on 31 December (%)

    27.7% (2025)

  • Naturalisation

    Headline indicator: Acquisitions of Swiss citizenship (persons per year)

    40,672 (2025)

  • Dual citizenship

    Headline indicator: Share of Swiss nationals aged 15 and over with another nationality (%)

    20.9% (2024)

  • Migration background

    Headline indicator: Share of the population aged 15 and over with a migration background (%)

    40.9% (2024)

Sources: OFS/BFS — Demographic balance of the permanent resident population by nationality category (data 1971–2025, source checked on ); OFS/BFS — Acquisitions of Swiss citizenship by former nationality and crude naturalisation rate (data 1975–2025, source checked on ); OFS/BFS — Swiss citizens aged 15 and over with and without another nationality (data 2015–2024, source checked on ); OFS/BFS — Permanent resident population aged 15 and over by migration status (data 2012–2024, source checked on )

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Related federal votes

Selection: votes that Swissvotes assigns to this topic's policy area (Swissvotes codebook), and votes linked by Votara editors.

Each line is one vote, from 1848 to 2026: accepted rejected upcoming

Accepted: 16 of 49

Upcoming

  1. Fireworks Initiative Upcoming

The 10 most recent of 49 past votes

  1. Climate Fund Initiative Rejected
  2. Cantonal taxation of second properties Accepted
  3. Initiative for an economy within planetary boundaries («Environmental Responsibility Initiative») Rejected
  4. Termination due to personal need (tenancy law) Rejected
  5. Conditions for subletting Rejected
  6. Biodiversity initiative Rejected
  7. Climate and Innovation Act Accepted
  8. CO2 Act Rejected
  9. Initiative «For a Switzerland without artificial pesticides» Rejected
  10. Initiative «For clean drinking water and healthy food» Rejected

Source: Année politique suisse, University of Bern — Swissvotes – database of federal popular votes (data 1848–2027, source checked on ) Checks failing

Citizen urgency and parliament attention

Parliamentary business
16.9% of 8,496 business items
Agora daily votes
fewer than 50 votes Opinion of Votara users, not a representative poll

Curia Vista subjects counted for this area: Umwelt, Migration.

2,419 items carry at least one of these subjects; an item that also belongs to other areas is split between them.

Votara calculation. The Parliamentary Services tag every business item with one or more subjects; Votara assigns each subject to at most one area. An item that touches several areas is split equally between them.

Agora votes are not representative of the population.

All areas compared · How the subjects are assigned to the areas

Sources: Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista) (source checked on ) Checks failing; Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business types and statuses (Curia Vista) (source checked on ); Votara — Votara calculation – share of parliamentary business per problem area (Curia Vista subject tags mapped)

Source of the Federal Assembly data: Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern. Downloaded on Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista): 10 November 2026; Business types and statuses (Curia Vista): 1 November 2026. Prepared by Votara; this is not an official publication. Terms of use of the data