There are more people living in the city of Zurich than ever before – but the birth rate is showing a dramatic decline.
Cantonal figures show at the end of last year, there 450,000 people in Switzerland’s largest city. 150,000 were non-Swiss.
The largest single foreign group is German.
But the biggest surprise is a collapsing birth rate. The number of babies born in the city is down 13 percent since 2021 – especially for first time parents, where the trend is even sharper at 17%.
The statisticians say they can’t see any covid effects from these numbers.
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