Canton's population rises to 120,089

At the end of 2014 the canton’s population reached 120,089, the equivalent of an increase of 1.7% over the previous year.
 
Along with Geneva, the canton of Zug actually showed the second highest level of growth in population in Switzerland, below only that of the canton of Fribourg at 1.9%.
 
Since the millennium, Zug’s population has actually grown by as many as 20,000, or 21%. Of all the canton’s municipalities, Risch is the one which has seen the highest growth in population, up by as much as 39%. By number, the population of the city of Zug grew the most, by 5,893 people in fact, followed by that of Baar, which showed an increase of 4,062 people.
 
What these figures provided by the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics also show is that with 120,000 people living in an area of 239 square kilometres, the level of density is 502 per square metre, compared with 1,422 people per square metre on the densely populated island of Malta.
 
As to the number of foreigners living in Zug, the figure as of the end of 2014 stood at 31,643, or 26.4% of the whole population. The latest statistics show that the number of foreigners increased by 0.5% only over the course of last year. The fewest foreigners live in Hünenberg (16.5%) with most of them (33.2%) residing in Walchwil. One in five foreigners, or 20.5% of them, is actually German, with Italians forming the next largest foreign group at 9.4%. Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty make up 6.5% of the foreign population.