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Capital city:
Bern
Ethnic groups:
German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Muslim 4.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1% (2000 census)
Languages:
German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)
note:German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national and official languages
Population:
7,639,961 (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 95
Age structure:
0-14 years: 15.2% (male 602,894/female 560,175)
 15-64 years: 67.8% (male 2,612,557/female 2,569,318)
 65 years and over: 17% (male 543,074/female 751,943) (2011 est.)
Median age:
total: 41.7 years
 male: 40.6 years
 female: 42.8 years (2011 est.)