Editing Ticino (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:LocarnoSasso.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|The canton is predominantly Catholic (here the [[Madonna del Sasso, Switzerland|Madonna del Sasso]] sanctuary in Orselina)]]
{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Religion in canton of Ticino (age 15+, 2012)<ref name="Annuario Statistico Ticinese 2015"/>
|label1 = [[Catholic Church in Switzerland|Catholic]]
|value1 = 70
|color1 = #2243B6
|label2 = [[Swiss Reformed Church]]
|value2 = 4
|color2 = DodgerBlue
|label3 = Other Christian Churches
|value3 = 5
|color3 = #49A7FF
|label4 = [[Islam]]
|value4 = 2
|color4 = LightGreen
|label5 = Other religion
|value5 = 1
|color5 = Orange
|label6 = Unaffiliated
|value6 = 16
|color6 = Lightgrey
|label7 = Undetermined
|value7 = 2
|color7 = Black
}}
Ticino has a population (as of {{Swiss populations date|CH-TI}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-TI|CH-TI}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-TI}} {{as of|2013}}, the population included 94,366 foreigners, or about 27.2% of the total population. The largest groups of foreign population were Italians (46.2%), followed by Croats (6.5%) and Portuguese (5.9%).<ref name="Annuario Statistico Ticinese 2015"/> The population density (in 2005) is 114.6 persons per km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name="BFS Tessin"/> As of 2000, 83.1% of the population spoke Italian, 8.3% spoke German and 1.7% spoke [[Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]].<ref name="BFS Tessin"/>

As of 2019, 70.0% of the total population was [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dluga.html|language=en|title=Diocese of Lugano – Statistics|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
According to a 2012 survey, the population aged 15 years and older was mostly Catholic (70%); further Christian denominations accounted for 10% of the population (including [[Swiss Reformed Church|Swiss Reformed]] 4%), 2% were [[Muslim]] and 1% of the population adhered to another religion (including [[Jews]] 0.1%).<ref name="Annuario Statistico Ticinese 2015">{{cite web|url=https://m3.ti.ch/DFE/DR/USTAT/index.php?fuseaction=pubblicazioni.dettaglioVolume&t=1&idCollana=23&idVolume=1441|language=it|title=Annuario Statistico Ticinese 2015|publisher=Ufficio di Statistica del Cantone Ticino|access-date=4 April 2019}}</ref>

The official language, and the one used for most written communication, is [[Swiss Italian]]. Despite being very similar to [[Italian language|standard Italian]], Swiss Italian presents some differences to the Italian spoken in [[Italy]] due to the influence of [[French language|French]] and German from which it assimilates words. Dialects of the [[Lombard language]] such as [[Ticinese dialect|Ticinese]] are still spoken, especially in the valleys, but they are not used for official purposes.

Despite the dominance of Italian speakers, fluency in [[Standard German|Standard]] or [[Swiss German]] is sometimes taken to be an important prerequisite for employment, regardless of sector or sphere of work.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXK-wa0oruAC&pg=PA426|title=Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact: Methods and Cases|first1=William|last1=Mackey|first2=Jacob|last2=Ornstein|date=22 July 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110810752|via=Google Books}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=September 2020}}

In 2016, Ticino was the European region with the second highest life expectancy at 85.0 years, and the highest male life expectancy at 82.7 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&plugin=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00101 |title=Eurostat-Life expectancy at birth by sex and NUTS 2 region |website=Ec.europa.eu |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref>

=== Historical population ===
The historical population is given in the following table:
{| class="wikitable collapsible"
! colspan="5" | Historic Population Data<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tessin (Kanton)|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/007394/2017-05-30/|access-date=2022-01-25|website=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz|language=de}}</ref>
|-
! Year
! Total Population
! Swiss
! Non-Swiss
!Population share <br />of total country
|-
! scope="row" | 1850
| rowspan="1" align="center" |117 759
| rowspan="1" align="center" |109,952	
| rowspan="1" align="center" |7,807	
| align="center" |4.9%
|-
!1880
| rowspan="1" align="center"|130,394
| rowspan="1" align="center" |110,306
| rowspan="1" align="center"|20,088
| align="center"align="center"|4.6%
|-
! scope="row" | 1900
| rowspan="1" align="center" |138,638
| rowspan="1" align="center" |108,181
| align="center" |30,457
| align="center" |4.2%
|-
! scope="row" | 1950
| rowspan="1" align="center" |175,055
| rowspan="1" align="center" |144,909
| rowspan="1" align="center" |30,146
| align="center" |3.7%
|-
! scope="row" | 1970
| align="center" |245,458
| align="center" |177,954
| rowspan="1" align="center" |67,504
| align="center" |3.9%
|-
!2000
| align="center"|306,846
| align="center"|228,057
| align="center"|78,789
| align="center"|4.2%
|-
! scope="row" | 2020
| align="center" | 350,986 || align="center" | || align="center" |
| align="center" |4.1%
|-
|}