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Aging is slow: Foreigners keep Switzerland young

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The old-age division – that is, the ratio of the number of retirees to the “active” population – is 40.5 percent for the Swiss population.
Jean-Claude RaemyEditorial Economy

Foreign retirees being pulled back into their homes made headlines on Blick last week. A pension fund of 80 percent is paid and leaves Switzerland.

This is just not good for pension funds, because they are no longer at risk of old age. Switzerland is also good for the old age rate. The old-age dependency ratio is the ratio of people of retirement age to 100 people of working age.

Strangers make us younger

As “Infosperber” writes, the permanent resident foreign population is constantly being replenished as many foreign retirees leave Switzerland again.

This has two advantages: On the one hand, the population is not growing disproportionately. If all immigrants remained in Switzerland, immigration would have to be increased so that the old age rate would not deteriorate significantly. But this is not necessary. On the other hand, this keeps Switzerland from aging – which is ultimately good for the social security system. In 2022, about 2.5 people of working age fell for every person of retirement age among Swiss, while the age ratio for foreigners in Switzerland was almost 9 to 1.

Such is the case in the cantons

The impression that there are many foreigners in the middle age groups is therefore correct. However, with large regional differences.

For example, in the canton of Geneva, the rate of foreigners was 41 percent according to Infosperber 2022. This rate was 47 percent in the 21-65 age group, and 55 percent in the 30-50 age group. That makes Geneva the best. The age division is also advantageous for this.

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In Basel-Stadt or Zurich, the elderly dependency ratio is also relatively low, with a relatively high proportion of foreigners, especially in working-age groups. In the canton of Bern in 2022 the proportion of foreigners was only 17 percent. The ratio of retirees and working people there was between 1 and 2.26.

The highest old-age dependency ratio among foreigners is in Ticino, and the lowest in the canton of Friborg.

Source :Blick

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