Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA

75% of Swiss citizens living abroad have more than one nationality

Press releases, 07.04.2022

At the end of 2021, more than one in ten Swiss citizens lived abroad. This was a 1.5% increase compared with 2020. Most of these citizens lived in Europe. Regardless of the continent in which they lived, the majority were aged between 18 and 64. Reflecting Switzerland's multicultural nature, many of them also had more than one nationality, according to the results of the statistics on the Swiss abroad from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

This press release and further information on the topic can be found on the FSO website (see link below).

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Fabienne Rausa, FSO, Demography and Migration, tel.: +41 58 463 63 50,
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Last update 19.07.2023

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