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United Press International, July 6, 2004 Swiss population growth slowest
since 1918 NEUCHATEL, Switzerland --Swiss government statistics released Tuesday show the nation's population growing at its slowest rate since 1918. Switzerland recorded only 8,800 more births than deaths last year, the smallest such margin since the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung reported. The government report indicates Swiss residents are marrying less often and later. Men begin their first marriage at an average age of 31.3 years and women at an average age of 29. The average Swiss marriage now lasts only 13.6 years. The report ties those statistics to the Swiss birthrate, which has been falling since 1993 and dropped 0.7 percent from 2002 to 2003. The report also indicates late marriages are leading to late childbirth and an increasingly small window in which to have children. Most married couples limit themselves to a single child, for an average family size of 1.37 children.
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