Immigration to Switzerland slowed down last year. More foreign nationals left Switzerland, while fewer people moved to the Alpine country than in 2024. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Some 83,000 foreign nationals resident in Switzerland left Switzerland in 2025, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) wrote on Monday based on provisional figures. This is around 5% more than in the previous year. At the same time, around 165,000 foreign nationals arrived in Switzerland, around 3% fewer than in 2024, according to the SEM, meaning that net immigration of foreign nationals fell for the second time in a row. For 2025, it was 75,000 people, 10% lower than in 2024. Around 5% fewer people moved to Switzerland from EU and EFTA states than in 2024. For most of them, the reason for this was a job. Around 20% fewer new immigrants came from third countries. At the end of 2025, around 2.4 million foreigners were living in Switzerland, which has a total population ...
