Migration, climate change and artificial intelligence (AI): these global phenomena have a major impact in Switzerland too. Swissinfo presents a selection of statistics from 2025 to help explain how these issues affect Swiss residents. Decline in births Fertility is constantly declining in Switzerland. And the fertility rate just reached the lowest point ever recorded: 1.29 children per woman in 2024. This means smaller families. According to figures published in November by the Federal Statistical Office, births of third children have fallen most steeply (-14% over the past five years). The number of first children is down by 8.5% and second children by 9%. More people are choosing not to have children at all. The proportion of 30-year-olds adopting this attitude increased from 9 to 16% over a ten-year period. Yet the most widespread aspiration across the population is still to have two children. The decline in births is partly explained by the fact that people are having children ...
