It amounts to almost 100,000 people: significantly more people are emigrating to Switzerland again

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Immigration to the permanent foreign population increased by 19,118 people to 181,553 in 2023 compared to the previous year, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) announced on Thursday. At the same time, 75,291 people from the permanent foreign population emigrated, 1,555 more than in 2022.

Of the 181,553 people who emigrated to Switzerland last year, 71.9 percent came from a member state of the European Union (EU) or the European Free Trade Association EFTA, of which Switzerland is a member. Immigration from the EU and EFTA increased by 14.1 percent to 130,483 people. Among third-country nationals, an increase of 6.3 percent to 51,070 people was recorded.

Still mainly Italian

At the end of 2023, 1,540,798 EU/EFTA nationals and 772,419 third-country nationals were living permanently in Switzerland. This concerns a total of 2,313,217 foreigners. Net immigration is calculated based on the difference between immigration and emigration, including statistical corrections.

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With 342,454 people, Italians remain the largest foreign population group in Switzerland, followed by Germans (326,033 people), Portuguese (260,462 people) and French (165,684 people). Last year, 41,073 foreigners were naturalized.

15 percent now have a Swiss passport

Over a period of 15 years, approximately 44 percent of all people who entered Switzerland in 2009 will have left Switzerland by the end of 2023. If only EU/EFTA nationals are taken into account, this value is slightly higher at 48 percent.

By the end of 2023, 15 percent of those admitted in 2009 acquired Swiss citizenship, and 33 percent had a residence permit. (SDA)

Source:Blick

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