Definitions/Comments:
As of 2010, new definition of the permanent resident population to also include people in the asylum process with a total length of residency of at least 12 months.
Balkan countries = former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria.
Sources: 1950–1990: SFSO, VZ; from 2000: SFSO, PETRA
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Resident foreign population by country of birth
Resident foreign population by country of origin
Life satisfaction of immigrants and Swiss citizens in Switzerland and in the country of origin 
