2023-05-13 16:51:09
Switzerland will soon be home to 9 million inhabitants. Some fear an overpopulated country, too cramped, others see it as the sign of a Switzerland which is doing well, which is innovating. Mobility, jobs, housing, birth rate and aging: this growth raises many questions. Le Temps offers you a special file.
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Switzerland will soon have 9 million inhabitants, and in this election year, the event is not insignificant. The country’s leading party, the SVP, has made it a campaign theme, banking on the same success as in 2015, a year of strong migration to Europe following the crisis in Syria. In the process, the PLR, relieved of the weight of having a Federal Councilor in charge of the migration file, strengthened its speech. Are political discourses on demography reliable? Philippe Wanner, professor at the Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics at the University of Geneva, is the right man to answer them. In 2014, he signed a book entitled A Switzerland of 10 million inhabitants (Swiss Knowledge collection, Polytechnic and University Presses Romandes).
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