Country comparison: Switzerland / Luxembourg

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Switzerland and Luxembourg. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Region:	Western Europe	Western Europe
Area:	41,290 km²	2,590 km²
National language:	German	Luxembourgish
Government form:	Federal republic	Constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1499 AD	1867 AD
Capital:	Bern	Luxembourg

Population

Details for Switzerland and Luxembourg

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Population:	8,703,000	640,064
Inhabitants/km²:	210.8	247.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 42.7 years	Ø 39.5 years
Birth rate:	9.90 ‰	10.20 ‰
Death rate:	8.80 ‰	7.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.52 ‰	12.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Political stability:	91	94
Civil rights:	99	97
Health:	93	85
Climate:	35	25
Cost of Living:	44	46
Popularity:	40	42

Economy

Details for Switzerland and Luxembourg

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Currency:	Swiss franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.3 %	5.2 %
Inflation rate:	0.58 %	2.53 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	142.40 %	113.14 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	20.40 %
Average income:	90,600 US$	88,190 US$
Corruption index:	18 (good)	23 (good)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	LUX: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	800,640 M US$	91.99 M US$	85,506 M US$	133.59 M US$
Gross national product:	788,512 M US$	90.60 M US$	56,449 M US$	88.19 M US$
Exported goods:	571,376 M US$	65.65 M US$	177,831 M US$	277.83 M US$
Imported goods:	480,522 M US$	55.21 M US$	148,150 M US$	231.46 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Switzerland and Luxembourg

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	LUX: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.22 km	2,875 km	4.49 km
Railways:	3,236 km	0.37 km	275 km	0.43 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	37 km	0.06 km
Harbours:	20	0.0023	153	0.2390
Passenger airports:	5	0.0006	1	0.0016

Energy balance

Details for Switzerland and Luxembourg

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	LUX: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.72 m kWh	6.48 bn kWh	10.12 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.78 m kWh	334.50 m kWh	522,603.99 kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.47 m kWh	1.42 bn kWh	2.22 m kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.92 m kWh	7.72 bn kWh	12.06 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.38 m t	4,294.87 t	9.49 m t	14,826.64 t

Telecommunication

Details for Switzerland and Luxembourg

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
International dialing:	+41	+352
Internet domain:	.ch	.lu

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	LUX total	LUX per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,956,500	340	268,090	419
Mobile cellulars:	11,060,700	1271	890,000	1390
Internet server:	5,301,000	609	250,900	392
Internet users:	8,317,789	956	632,556	988
Broadband Internet:	4,007,000	460	235,155	367

Healthcare system

Details for Switzerland and Luxembourg

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.63	4.26
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	3.03
Diabetes:	5.7 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.05 %	0.12 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.06 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	38.0 %
Smokers:	25.5 %	21.1 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Switzerland and Luxembourg

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Daytime temperatures:	15.3 °C	14.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.5 °C	6.3 °C
Rain days:	9.5	10.0
Sunshine hours per day:	5.3	5.0

Native languages

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Luxembourgish:	n/a	64.4 %
German:	62.5 %	2.3 %
French:	21.3 %	4.2 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	13.0 %
Italian:	8.3 %	4.6 %
Croatian:	1.4 %	n/a
Albanian:	1.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	1.1 %	n/a
Romansh:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	2.4 %	11.5 %

Religions

	Switzerland	Luxembourg
Christianity:	70.8 %	87.0 %
Nondenominational:	21.4 %	n/a
Islam:	4.9 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	13.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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