Wald (German pronunciation: [valt] ⓘ) is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.

Of the rest of the land, 5.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (93.6%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (2.3%) and French being third (0.8%).

[3] As of 2000[update], the gender distribution of the population was 51.3% male and 48.7% female.

[6] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Wald is; 94 people or 10.7% of the population are between 0–6 years old.