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Key population and private household figures

	2018
Total	8 542.3
Swiss nationals	6 395.3
Foreign nationals	2 147.0
Youth dependency ratio (as a %)	32.5
Old-age dependency ratio (as a %)	30.0
Spatial distribution
Urban core area	...
Area influenced by urban cores	...
Area beyond urban core influence	...
Population growth (as a %)	0.7
Swiss nationals abroad	760.2
Households
One-person households	1 320.2
Family households with children	1 268.0
Average size of the private households (number of persons)	2.23

Youth dependency ratio = the number of 0-19 year-olds in relation to the working age population (20-64 year-olds)

Old-age dependency ratio = the number of people aged 65 and over in relation to the working age population (20-64 year-olds)

2018: provisional annual figures
…= The figures are not available yet

Sources: FSO, STATPOP, SS, SE-Stat

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