Population  8.04 million (2012 estimate)
Life expectancy at birth: 80 years (male), 84.7 years female (2013 data)
Population growth rate: 0.85% (2013 estimate)

Ethnic groups – German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% (2007 data)

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%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)

Religion – Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Muslim 4.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1% (2000 census)

Education expenditure: 5.4% of GDP (2009)

Youth unemployment (ages 15-24): 7.7%

Population below poverty line: 7.9% (2010)