Editing Demographics of Switzerland (section)

===Permanent residents by nationality===
The number of registered resident foreigners was 1,001,887 (16.17%) in 1970. This amount decreased to 904,337 (14.34%) in 1979, and has increased steadily since that time, passing the 20% mark during 2001 and rising to 1,524,663 (20.56%) in 2004. The number of Swiss citizens thus numbered about 5.9 million in that year.

In 2013 there were a total of 1,937,447 permanent residents (23.8% of the total population of 8.14 million) in Switzerland. Of these, 1.65 million resident foreigners (85.0%, or 20.2% of the 8.14 million total population),<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/01/key.html Bevölkerung - Die wichtigsten Zahlen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927025255/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/01/key.html|date=27 September 2014}} Swiss Federal Statistical Office, accessed 6 October 2014</ref><ref name="Auslander">[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/migration-integration/auslaendische-bevoelkerung.assetdetail.18344247.html Ständige ausländische Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeit, 1980-2020] Swiss Federal Statistical Office, accessed 16 July 2022</ref> had European citizenship (Italian: 298,875; German: 292,291; Portuguese: 253,227; French: 110,103; Serbian: 90,704; Kosovan: 86,976; Spanish: 75,333, Macedonian: 62,633; British: 40,898; Austrian: 39,494; Bosnian and Herzegovinian: 33,002; Croatian: 30,471). From other continents; 122,941 residents were from Asia; 83,873 from Africa; 78,433 from the Americas; and 4,145 from Oceania.<ref name="Auslander" />

The following chart shows permanent resident numbers from selected regions and countries every 5 years.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Nation || 1980 || 1985 || 1990 || 1995 || 2000 || 2005 || 2010 || 2015 || 2020
|-
| Total || 913,497 || 960,674 || 1,127,109 || 1,363,590 || 1,424,370 || 1,541,912 || 1,766,277 || 2,048,667 || 2,210,788
|-
| Europe || 859,054 || 892,748 || 1,036,760 || 1,238,937 || 1,261,975 || 1,334,590 || 1,504,943 || 1,733,255 || 1,831,923
|-
| Africa || 10,539 || 13,130 || 20,291 || 28,800 || 37,618 || 48,081 || 71,527 || 93,814 || 113,647
|-
| Americas || 20,838 || 23,438 || 29,149 || 38,585 || 49,687 || 61,732 || 74,511 || 78,773 || 83,591
|-
| North America || 12,182 || 12,394 || 13,775 || 16,140 || 18,952 || 21,004 || 25,590 || 26,271 || 26,249
|-
| Latin America and Caribbean || 8,656 || 11,044 || 15,374 || 22,445 || 30,735 || 40,728 || 48,921 || 52,502 || 57,342
|-
| Asia || 21,569 || 29,772 || 38,921 || 54,914 || 72,002 || 94,009 || 110,549 || 136,789 || 174,976
|-
| Oceania || 1,260 || 1,326 || 1,728 || 1,999 || 2,829 || 3,242 || 3,990 || 4,230 || 4,187
|-
|
|-
| [[German immigration to Switzerland|Germany]] || 87,389 || 82,143 || 84,485 || 91,976 || 109,785 || 158,651 || 263,271 || 300,691 || 309,459
|-
| Spain || 98,098 || 109,232 || 116,987 || 102,320 || 84,266 || 72,167 || 64,126 || 82,334 || 86,220
|-
| France || 48,002 || 48,948 || 51,729 || 55,407 || 61,688 || 70,901 || 95,643 || 122,970 || 145,461
|-
| [[Italian immigration to Switzerland|Italy]] || 423,008 || 394,812 || 381,493 || 361,892 || 321,795 || 297,917 || 287,130 || 311,742 || 325,348
|-
| Austria || 31,986 || 29,417 || 29,123 || 28,454 || 29,191 || 33,069 || 37,013 || 41,145 || 44,252
|-
| Portugal || 10,863 || 31,029 || 86,035 || 135,646 || 135,449 || 167,857 || 212,586 || 267,474 || 257,691
|-
| United Kingdom || 16,050 || 17,482 || 18,269 || 20,030 || 22,309 || 26,425 || 37,273 || 41,766 || 42,749
|-
| Croatia || - || - || - || 42,582 || 43,876 || 40,709 || 33,507 || 29,355 || 27,928
|-
| Serbia and Montenegro || - || - || - || - || 190,940 || 196,833 || - || - || -
|- 
| [[Serbs in Switzerland|Serbia]] || - || - || - || - || - || - || 121,908 || 71,260 || 61,933
|-
| Montenegro || - || - || - || - || - || - || 2,022 || 2,536 || 2,523
|-
| Kosovo || - || - || - || - || - || - || 58,755 || 106,879 || 113,660
|-
| Bosnia and Herzegovina || - || - || - || 24,748 || 45,111 || 43,354 || 35,513 || 31,905 || 28,756
|-
| North Macedonia || - || - || - || 39,540 || 56,092 || 60,898 || 60,116 || 64,448 || 67,745
|-
| Albania  || 15 || 17 || 29 || 576 || 1,093 || 1,218 || 1,308 || 1,590 || 2,644
|-
| Sri Lanka || 373 || 808 || 2,840 || 9,841 || 20,215 || 31,865 || 28,963 || 27,667 || 28,728
|-
| Iraq || 352 || 378 || 454 || 771 || 2,046 || 3,257 || 7,553 || 7,092 || 8,769
|-
| [[Turks in Switzerland|Turkey]] || 38,353 || 51,206 || 64,899 || 79,372 || 80,165 || 75,903 || 71,835 || 69,215 || 68,049
|}