Datasheet NUTS-3 regions
Valais/Wallis
The Biggest Glacier in the Alps, the Aletsch Glacier (Image: Top-Wetter.de)
Valais/Wallis <> Bozen/Bolzano
POPULATION
Population (End of the year 2005) 291575 482650
Population change 1995-2005 +7.5% +7.6%
 
Population density
Inhabitants per km² 2005 55.8 65.2
Inhabitants per km² of permanent settled areas 2005 527.2 404.6
 
Age Structure population pyramid population pyramid
Children and juveniles per 100 seniors 2005 102.7 102.6
Seniors per 100 adults 2005 18.7 20.0
 
ECONOMY
Economic structure
Percentage of agricultural jobs 10.7% 9.4%
Percentage of industrial jobs 25.8% 25.8%
Percentage of service-jobs 63.5% 64.8%
 
Gross domestic product (GDP)
GDP per capita (2002) 32393€ 32279€
GDP in power purchasing parities per capita (2002) 22639 33783
 
Unemployment
Unemployment rate (2005) 4.0% 2.7%
 
TOURISM
Overnight stays (2005) 12023922 25698308
Maximum of present persons in % of the resident population 2005 173.7% 144.6%