About dachshunds and playing cards +46% Urban trends change all the time, and dogs are no exception. Dachshunds are all the rage at the moment. The number of sausage dogs in Switzerland has risen by 46 per cent in the last seven years. What used to be a popular canine among the prim-andproper middle class is now the designer dog of choice for young urbanites. What would Otto the dachshund say? Grrrrr, woof, woof! Source: research by Tamedia 4000 But this is no game: more and more young IT specialists are losing their jobs. According to a study by the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) at ETH Zurich, an unusually large number of digital natives in the IT sector are currently unemployed – because they have been replaced by AI. The number of young, jobless IT experts in Switzerland has doubled to 4,000 “surprisingly quickly”, the study says. Source: KOF/ETH Zurich 1 000 000 No changing trends here: the Swiss still love card games. And Jass continues to be Switzerland’s undisputed national card game. Its most popular variant is “Schieber”, which is played with a 36-card deck. It is unclear how many Swiss play Jass, but the following statistic gives an idea: over one million Jass sets are sold every year. That is enough for four million Jass players to partake in a game of “Schieber” simultaneously. Source: research by NZZ Folio 50 000 000 If your net assets are 50 million Swiss francs or more, you probably don’t have too many job worries. In recent weeks, many around the country would have been forgiven for asking: where exactly in Switzerland do the 2,500 individuals with at least 50 million live? The canton of Nidwalden has the highest density of super-rich: 22 out of every 10,000 inhabitants. Zurich leads the way in absolute terms, with 400. The canton of Fribourg is at the other end of the scale, with only 0.4 super-rich per 10,000 inhabitants. Source: data analysis by Tamedia FIGURES COMPILED BY MARC LETTAU “Swiss Review”, the magazine for the Swiss Abroad, is in its 51st year of publication and is published five times a year, in 13 regional editions, in German, French, English and Spanish. It has a total circulation of 479,000, including 311,000 electronic copies. All Swiss Abroad who are registered with a Swiss representation receive the magazine free of charge. Anyone else can subscribe for an annual fee (Switzerland: CHF 30 / Abroad: CHF 50). ONLINE EDITION www.revue.ch EDITORS Marc Lettau, Editor-in-Chief (MUL), Stéphane Herzog (SH), Theodora Peter (TP), Susanne Wenger (SWE), Amandine Madziel, FDFA representative (AM) FDFA OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS The editorial responsibility for the “Notes from the Federal Palace” section is assumed by the Consular Directorate, Innovation and Partnerships, Effingerstrasse 27, 3003 Berne, Switzerland. kdip@eda.admin.ch | www.eda.admin.ch ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Airpage AG, Uster/Zurich furrer@airpage.ch | www.airpage.ch The ordering parties are fully responsible for the content of advertisements and promotional inserts. This content does not necessarily represent the opinion of either the editorial office or the publisher. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Nema Bliggenstorfer (NB) TRANSLATION SwissGlobal Language Services AG, Baden LAYOUT Joseph Haas, Zurich PRINT Vogt-Schild Druck AG, Derendingen PUBLISHER The “Swiss Review” is published by the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad. The postal address of the publisher and the editorial office is: Organisation of the Swiss Abroad, Alpenstrasse 26, 3006 Berne. revue@swisscommunity.org Phone: +41 31 356 61 10 Bank details: CH97 0079 0016 1294 4609 8 / KBBECH22 COPY DEADLINE FOR THIS EDITION 5 November 2025 CHANGES OF ADDRESS Please advise your local embassy or consulate. The editorial team cannot access your address and administrative data. Thank you. Imprint Swiss Review / December 2025 / No.5 19 Switzerland in figures
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