Tag: population increase PEW Research Centre - Brussels Signal

As Swiss voters prepare to decide on the Swiss People's Party's (SVP/UDC) proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million, a coalition of healthcare institutions, business groups, and government officials are campaigning against what they warn would be a profound disruption to the country's economy and public services. (Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)

POPULATION INCREASE PEW RESEARCH CENTRE 8 JUN 2026

Healthcare industry worry as Swiss voters to decide on 10 million population cap

Key sectors in Switzerland have become structurally dependent on foreign labour.

POPULATION INCREASE PEW RESEARCH CENTRE 14 JAN 2025

Birth rate continues dropping in France, lowest since end of WWI

France's fertility rate has dropped to the lowest level since 1918, with only 663,000 babies born in France in 2024. This was 21.

Watch the British population explode, not through births but through immigration (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

POPULATION INCREASE PEW RESEARCH CENTRE 10 OCT 2024

Deaths outnumber births in UK, population surges not through birth but through immigration

Britain’s population is booming. The UK recorded its highest percentage increase in history last year, up one per cent to 63.