Population density
Categories: Society and Culture › Population › Density and Distribution
Between 1900 and 2008, Switzerland's population has more than doubled, from 3.3 millions in 1900 to 8.2 millions in 2014. At present, 73.7 per cent of the population live in urban areas and less than one third in rural areas. This is typical throughout Europe for conurbations.
For Switzerland as a whole, the population density is 206 persons/km² (2014). Urban areas grew by 1.1 per cent in 2011, while the population in rural areas grew by 0.9 per cent to reach around 2.0 million people.
Text Sources
- FSO (2003): Statistisches Jahrbuch der Schweiz. Neuchâtel: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- FSO (2010): Statistisches Jahrbuch der Schweiz. Neuchâtel: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- FSO (2015): Bevölkerung: Panorama. Neuchâtel: Bundesamt für Statistik
Data Sources
- Atlas of Switzerland (2000): Besiedelbares Gebiet
- Atlas of Switzerland: Administrative Einheiten 1:500.000 (Gemeinden, Bezirke, Kantone)
- ETH Zurich: Atlas of Switzerland
- FSO (2018): Bilanz der ständigen Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Staatsangehörigkeit (Kategorie), Geschlecht und demographischen Komponenten
- FSO (2019): STATPOP
- FSO (2020): Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Staatsangehörigkeit (Kategorie), Geschlecht und Alter
- swisstopo [J160089] (2010): Gemeindegrenzen GG25
- swisstopo [J160089] (2010): Landeskarte 1:500.000
Data Owners: Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Atlas of Switzerland (AoS), Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Federal Office of Transport (OFT), Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo)
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