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Switzerland Immigration by Country

What are the most common countries of birth for Swiss residents who were not born in Switzerland?
As of 2024. Source.
Quiz by Aaron197
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Last updated: April 4, 2025
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First submittedJuly 13, 2019
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# People
Country
343,817
Italy
327,476
Germany
261,661
Portugal
167,130
France
116,842
Kosovo
97,560
Spain
71,573
Turkey
# People
Country
70,152
North Macedonia
56,618
Serbia
47,657
Austria
47,332
Poland
38,577
United Kingdom
35,841
Romania
35,780
Eritrea
# People
Country
32,241
Croatia
30,416
Hungary
27,215
Sri Lanka
27,044
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
24,166
Brazil
22,534
Netherlands
26 Comments
+32
Level 65
Mar 29, 2020
Nice quiz! I didn't expect Eritrea and Sri Lanka to be on there, but cool!
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Level 77
Apr 5, 2025
Not cool, but sad
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Level 75
Apr 7, 2025
Why exactly is it sad?
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Level 49
Apr 8, 2025
because people from there dare to not be born white
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Level 71
Apr 8, 2025
Possibly. It could also be that Emchupi meant to point out the deplorable political situation in both those countries right now
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Level 25
Apr 8, 2025
Its sad anyway. Switzerland is maybe even the best country to live in, so it must stay white because apparently this works.
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Level 68
Apr 8, 2025
Because if you import the third world, you become the third world.
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Level 28
Apr 9, 2025
third world countries rarely become third world countries because of their people.
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2025
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Level 62
Apr 10, 2025
Ahh yes, Emchupi and rabble, the best, least rascist commenters on any quiz about immigration! (/s
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Level 74
Apr 4, 2025
Somehow tried Sri Lanka, interesting
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Level 77
Apr 4, 2025
What is the explanation for Eritrea and Sri Lanka?
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Level 62
Apr 5, 2025
People from those countries immigrated to Switzerland. Hope this helps!
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Level 66
Apr 5, 2025
It doesn't explain! Why not India and Ethiopia, not Libya and Tajikistan, not Suriname or Algeria, but Sri Lanka and Eritrea? It's not just randomness, 30,000 Eritreans live in CH, it's a population of the canton of Obwalden! Why them? I think that any other resident of an African country would gladly emigrate to CH, but for some reason it is the Eritreans who are on the list? Maybe, because of political reasons, but I don't want to guess. It's better to get answer from knowing users.
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Level 65
Apr 8, 2025
I guess Neodymium’s answer is just a joke.
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Level 67
Apr 8, 2025
From some quick research, it looks like Switzerland admitted a lot of Eritrean refugees in the 2010s. The country accounted for 37% of all Eritrean refugees in Europe. Same story for Sri Lanka. In the 90's Switzerland took in many refugees suffering from the civil war in Sri Lanka, and they've been there ever since
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Level 62
Apr 9, 2025
Thank you for the explanation! I was wondering as well.
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Level 69
Apr 7, 2025
I guess it's because it's very hard to emigrate to Switzerland, and those two countries had a lot of asylum seekers (brutal dictatorship and Tamil genocide), which are more easily accepted.
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Level 73
Apr 8, 2025
The problem ist that you can't make the difference between people from Eritrea fleeing the government or the ones being there for economical reasons. They were actually riot between the two sides in Zurich. Sadly, the relation between Switzerland and Eritrea are now really bad, so Switzerland will stop their financial aid.
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Level 71
Apr 8, 2025
I mean, Eritrea doesn't really have good relations with any Western nation because of all the human rights violations and brutal regime...
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Level 57
Apr 9, 2025
I live in Switzerland and as far as I know, both are results of refugees due to Civil Wars. Sri Lanka a couple of decades ago and Eritrea quite recently. This is quite noticable because there are a lot of second generation Sri Lankan people here that are a normal part of swiss culture, while Eritreans are still basically just viewed as refugees (You rarely see any speaking german).
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Level 43
Apr 8, 2025
Congrats on the feature
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Level 27
Apr 8, 2025
how did i get eritrea and sri lanka but not turkey haha
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Level 50
Apr 8, 2025
I put Sri Lanka and Eritrea thanks to Mairo's origins..., so I still don't know why these countries in Switzerland, but I got them......
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Level 44
Apr 10, 2025
Randomly guessed Brazil and actually got it. Wonder why Brazil is there but not like the US.
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Level 28
Apr 10, 2025
I understand having the ex-Yugoslav states here, as well as Kosovo, but not having Albania is kind of weird, in my opinion.