Births

As a component of natural movement, live births naturally increase the population. Live births include live births, i.e. births of live children, i.e. children who, after complete expulsion (head, trunk, limbs) from the mother's body, are breathing or in whom at least a heartbeat is observed. A child is designated as stillborn (stillbirth) if it shows no signs of life at birth and if its weight is at least 500 grams or if the gestation period lasted at least 22 full weeks.

Births
  2020 2021 2022
Live births   85 914 89 644 82 371
Boys 44 299 45 928 42 464
Girls 41 615 43 716 39 907
Swiss 61 049 64 132 58 556
Foreigners 24 865 25 512 23 815
Stillbirths   319 395 359
Source: FSO – Vital Statistics

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CH-2010 Neuchâtel
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