Switzerland - People

Age structure:
0-14 years: 15.6% (male 616,561/female 571,610)
15-64 years: 68.1% (male 2,609,673/female 2,567,245)
65 years and over: 16.3% (male 514,761/female 724,617) (2009 est.)

Median age:
total: 41 years
male: 40 years
female: 42 years (2008 est.)

Population growth rate: 0.276% (2009 est.)

Birth rate: 9.62 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Death rate: 8.54 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Net migration rate: 1.76 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 4.18 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.64 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.68 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 80.85 years
male: 78.03 years
female: 83.83 years (2009 est.)

Total fertility rate: 1.45 children born/woman (2009 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.6% (2007 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 25,000 (2007 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths: fewer than 500 (2007 est.)

Nationality:
Noun: Swiss (singular and plural)
Adjective: Swiss

Ethnic groups: German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6%

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

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 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)
note: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national and official languages

Literacy: 
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.)

This information comes from the CIA World Factbook April 2009.