Permanent resident population by nationality and place of birth (Switzerland / abroad)
bfs-nationality-birthplace
- Publisher
- OFS/BFS
- Access method
pxweb- Table id
px-x-0102010000_104- Licence
- BFS terms of use OPEN-BY: "Open use. Must provide the source."
- Coverage
- Geography national · population permanent resident population, all ages (STATPOP registers) · referenceDay 31 December · from 2010 · to 2025
- Gaps
- One nationality per person in this table; a Swiss citizen who also holds another nationality is under "Schweiz", never under the other state (foreign nationals are people without Swiss citizenship). Place of birth is Switzerland or abroad only — the country of birth is not in this table. National level only kept.
- Used on
- STORY-06
- Known limits
- Registers, not a survey: no confidence interval. "Born in Switzerland" among foreign nationals covers the second and further generations who have not been naturalised; it says nothing about the parents. The table states its reference population as the permanent resident population on 31 December (since 2010 including persons in the asylum process with at least 12 months of residence). Cross-check (2026-11-02): the foreign total (total − Schweiz) equals bfs-nationality-groups ("Ausland") for every year 2010–2025, and the foreign population of bfs-population-balance on 31 December for 2011–2025 (that table is ESPOP up to 2010).
- Processed file
- data/processed/bfs-nationality-birthplace.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- 2010–2025
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Yearly
Ledger note (in English): Yearly, with the definitive population results in late August (2025 data on 20.08.2026).
- Votara checks the source
- Every week, and every day from 3 days before to 14 days after an announced publication date
The state is computed each time the site is built; this page shows it as of . Results of the accuracy checks
Transformations
- PxWeb POST to px-x-0102010000_104: Kanton = Schweiz (8100), Bevölkerungstyp = Ständige Wohnbevölkerung (1), every place of birth and nationality, json-stat2. code = BFS state code (8100 Schweiz, 8218 Italien …; empty for the total), group = ASCII slug of the German name (same rule as bfs-nationality-groups). Script: scripts/fetch/bfs-nationality-birthplace.ts
- Computed by Votara: group foreign = total − Schweiz, per year and place of birth. The fetcher checks that the nationalities add up to the total and that born in Switzerland + abroad = total.