- 27 Jan 2024 19:46
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In the European country of Switzerland, the majority of children now come from a foreign background.
This is evidence of the high amount of immigration that has been going on, as well as immigrant groups having substantially higher birthrates than the native Swiss population.
This is notable, because Switzerland is considered a high standard of living country, which traditionally had a larger percentage of its total population in the middle class than other European countries.
Between 2019 and 2021, six out of ten children under the age of six were living in a household in which at least one parent was born abroad or is a foreign national.
58% of children in this age group have foreign roots, according to an assessment by the Federal Statistical Office published on Sunday in the SonntagsZeitung. In the seven to 15 age group, the proportion of children with an immigrant background was 56%. Ten years earlier, the figures were 54% and 50% respectively.
"We prefer not to publicise these figures for fear of resistance," says Ganga Jey Aratnam, a researcher into migration, in the newspaper. "But it is important to know what Switzerland will look like in the future.”
In the city of Zurich 70% of 15-60 year-olds already have roots abroad.
Majority of children under six in Switzerland have foreign roots, swissinfo.ch , January 14, 2024
I will make two predictions: The standard of living is going to go down.
And there are going to be an increasing number of gun crimes, creating a push in the country to start implementing all sorts of additional strict restrictions on guns, bringing Switzerland more in line with other European countries. The latter has already begun.
This is evidence of the high amount of immigration that has been going on, as well as immigrant groups having substantially higher birthrates than the native Swiss population.
This is notable, because Switzerland is considered a high standard of living country, which traditionally had a larger percentage of its total population in the middle class than other European countries.
Between 2019 and 2021, six out of ten children under the age of six were living in a household in which at least one parent was born abroad or is a foreign national.
58% of children in this age group have foreign roots, according to an assessment by the Federal Statistical Office published on Sunday in the SonntagsZeitung. In the seven to 15 age group, the proportion of children with an immigrant background was 56%. Ten years earlier, the figures were 54% and 50% respectively.
"We prefer not to publicise these figures for fear of resistance," says Ganga Jey Aratnam, a researcher into migration, in the newspaper. "But it is important to know what Switzerland will look like in the future.”
In the city of Zurich 70% of 15-60 year-olds already have roots abroad.
Majority of children under six in Switzerland have foreign roots, swissinfo.ch , January 14, 2024
I will make two predictions: The standard of living is going to go down.
And there are going to be an increasing number of gun crimes, creating a push in the country to start implementing all sorts of additional strict restrictions on guns, bringing Switzerland more in line with other European countries. The latter has already begun.
- By Rich