Statistics
Figures published on 6 April 2023 by the Federal Statistical Office show that more than 800,000 Swiss citizens lived abroad on 31 December 2022.
About 214,000 Swiss citizens living abroad are registered on an electoral roll. This corresponds to the number of eligible voters in the canton of Grisons.
SWISSCOMMUNITY
Statistics
At the end of 2022, more than 800,000 Swiss citizens lived abroad.
Community of the Swiss Abroad in numbers:
11%
of all Swiss citizens live abroad.
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Added together, they would form the fourth largest canton in Switzerland.
12,000
Swiss citizens emigrated in 2022.
Federal Statistical Office
Further information on statistics on the Swiss Abroad can be found under the following links by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO):
- Swiss Abroad in 2022
- Swiss Abroad in 2021
- Swiss Abroad in 2020
- Swiss Abroad in 2019
- Swiss Abroad in 2018
- Swiss Abroad in 2017
- Number of Swiss Abroad by country of residence, citizenship, sex and age
- Overview of Swiss Abroad in 2019
- Immigration and emigration of the permanent resident population by nationality, 2002-20199