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Switzerland

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

General information

 SwitzerlandNorway
Region:Western EuropeNorthern Europe
Area:41,290 km²385,203 km²
National language:German, French, Italian, RomanshNorwegian
Government form:Federal republicParliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:1499 AD1905 AD
Capital:BernOslo

Population

Details for Switzerland and Norway

 SwitzerlandNorway
Population:8,703,0005,408,000
Inhabitants/km²:210.814.0
Life expectancy males:Ø 82 yearsØ 82 years
Life expectancy females:Ø 86 yearsØ 85 years
Average age:Ø 42.7 yearsØ 39.5 years
Birth rate:10.30 ‰10.40 ‰
Death rate:8.20 ‰7.80 ‰
Migrationrate:4.50 ‰3.89 ‰

Quality of life

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

 SwitzerlandNorway
Political stability:9190
Civil rights:9999
Health:9390
Climate:3516
Cost of Living:4235
Popularity:4037

Economy

Details for Switzerland and Norway

 SwitzerlandNorway
Currency:Swiss franc
(1 CHF = 100 Rappen)
Norwegian krone
(1 NOK =100 Øre)
Unemployment rate:4.2 %3.2 %
Inflation rate:2.84 %5.76 %
Cost of Living:
(USA = 100%)
139.03 %112.98 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:28.80 %36.20 %
Average income:90,600 US$83,880 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):42.07 %43.41 %
Government debt (% of GDP):13.82 %15.75 %
Corruption index:18 (good)16 (good)


 CHE:
total
per 1000
inh.
NOR:
total
per 1000
inh.
Gross domestic product:800,640 M US$91.99 M US$482,175 M US$89.15 M US$
Gross national product:788,512 M US$90.60 M US$453,625 M US$83.88 M US$
Exported goods:571,376 M US$65.65 M US$321,076 M US$59.37 M US$
Imported goods:480,522 M US$55.21 M US$156,924 M US$29.02 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Switzerland and Norway

 CHE:
total
per 1000
inh.
NOR:
total
per 1000
inh.
Roadways:71,557 km8.22 km94,902 km17.55 km
Railways:3,236 km0.37 km4,200 km0.78 km
Waterways:1,292 km0.15 km1,577 km0.29 km
Harbours:200.00231,6440.3040
Passenger airports:50.0006490.0091

Energy balance

Details for Switzerland and Norway

 CHE:
total
per 1000
inh.
NOR:
total
per 1000
inh.
Production capacity:200.79 bn kWh23.07 m kWh336.03 bn kWh62.13 m kWh
Energy consumption:56.41 bn kWh6.48 m kWh124.29 bn kWh22.98 m kWh
Energy production:66.16 bn kWh7.60 m kWh153.67 bn kWh28.41 m kWh
Energy export:32.55 bn kWh3.74 m kWh24.97 bn kWh4.62 m kWh
Energy imports:26.99 bn kWh3.10 m kWh4.50 bn kWh831,311.76 kWh
CO2 emissions:37.38 m t4,294.45 t35.95 m t6,646.50 t

Telecommunication

Details for Switzerland and Norway

 SwitzerlandNorway
International dialing:+41+47
Internet domain:.ch.no

 CHE
total
CHE
per 1000
inh.
NOR
total
NOR
per 1000
inh.
Landlines:2,956,500340348,80864
Mobile cellulars:11,060,70012715,825,5841077
Internet server:5,301,0006093,588,000663
Internet users:8,317,7899565,354,237990
Broadband Internet:4,170,7364792,387,661441

Healthcare system

Details for Switzerland and Norway

 SwitzerlandNorway
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:4.633.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:4.244.63
Diabetes:5.7 %5.3 %
HIV:0.05 %0.02 %
Tuberculosis:0.05 ‰0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:74.0 %89.0 %
Smokers:25.5 %16.2 %



Climate

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

 SwitzerlandNorway
Daytime temperatures:15.3 °C9.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:6.5 °C2.1 °C
Water temperature:10.8 °C8.8 °C
Rel. humidity:76 %78 %
Rain days:9.511.5
Sunshine hours per day:5.34.2


Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Switzerland
Norway

Native languages

 SwitzerlandNorway
Norwegian:n/a96.6 %
German:62.5 %n/a
French:21.3 %n/a
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
English:n/a0.5 %
Danish:n/a0.4 %
Swedish:n/a0.3 %
other:2.4 %2.2 %

Religions

 SwitzerlandNorway
State religion:noneNorwegian Church (Evangelical Lutheran)
Christianity:70.8 %87.8 %
Nondenominational:21.4 %n/a
Islam:4.9 %2.3 %
Jewry:0.2 %n/a
other:2.7 %9.9 %


Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.