Country comparison Switzerland : Israel

General information

	Switzerland	Israel
Region:	Western Europe	Western Asia
Area:	41,290 km²	22,070 km²
Official language:	German	Hebrew
Government form:	Federal republic	Parliamentary democracy
Independent since:	1499 n.Chr.	1948 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bern	Jerusalem

Population

	Switzerland	Israel
Population:	8,575,000	9,053,000
Inhabitants/km²:	207.7	410.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 42.0 years	Ø 30.1 years
Birthrate:	10.00 ‰	20.80 ‰
Deathrate:	7.80 ‰	5.00 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.55 ‰	2.05 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Switzerland	Israel
Political stability:	93	61
Civil rights:	99	74
Health:	93	85
Climate:	26	84
Cost of Living:	42	35
Popularity:	52	41

Economy

	Switzerland	Israel
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	Shekel (1 ILS =100 Agorot)
Unemployment rate:	4.9 %	4.6 %
Inflation rate:	0.36 %	0.84 %
Cost of Living:	159.00 %	131.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	25.30 %
Average income:	85,500 US$	43,110 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	60 (moderate)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	703,082 M US$	81.99 M US$	394,652 M US$	43.59 M US$
Gross national product:	733,126 M US$	85.50 M US$	390,264 M US$	43.11 M US$
Exported goods:	458,921 M US$	53.52 M US$	115,572 M US$	12.77 M US$
Imported goods:	375,294 M US$	43.77 M US$	108,257 M US$	11.96 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.35 km	19,555 km	2.16 km
Railways:	5,690 km	0.66 km	1,384 km	0.15 km
Harbours:	32	0.004	40	0.004
Airports:	63	0.007	42	0.005

Energy balance

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.82 m kWh	55.00 bn kWh	6.08 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.88 m kWh	63.09 bn kWh	6.97 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.52 m kWh	5.20 bn kWh	574,376.19 kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.98 m kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	34.48 m t	4,020.74 t	65.17 m t	7,198.07 t

Telecommunication

	Switzerland	Israel
International dialing:	+41	+972
Internet domain:	.ch	.il

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	ISR total	ISR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,100,000	362	3,040,000	336
Mobile phones:	10,927,300	1274	10,800,000	1193
Internet server:	5,301,000	618	2,483,000	274
Internet users:	7,987,122	931	7,857,169	868

Healthcare system

	Switzerland	Israel
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.70	3.10
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	3.22
Diabetes:	5.7 %	9.7 %
HIV:	0.05 %	0.10 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	78.0 %
Smokers:	25.1 %	25.5 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Switzerland and Israel

	Switzerland	Israel
Daytime temperatures:	13.8 °C	26.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.3 °C	16.3 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	22.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	60 %
Rain days:	10.1	3.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	9.0

Native languages

	Switzerland	Israel
Hebrew:	n/a	63.1 %
German:	62.5 %	n/a
French:	21.3 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	18.0 %
Russian:	n/a	14.0 %
Italian:	8.3 %	n/a
Croatian:	1.4 %	n/a
Albanian:	1.3 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	1.1 %	n/a
Romansh:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	2.4 %	4.9 %

Religions

	Switzerland	Israel
Jewry:	0.2 %	74.7 %
Christianity:	70.8 %	2.0 %
nondenominational:	21.4 %	n/a
Islam:	4.9 %	19.3 %
other:	2.7 %	4.0 %