Country comparison Switzerland : Norway

General information

	Switzerland	Norway
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	41,290 km²	385,203 km²
Official language:	German	Norwegian
Government form:	Federal republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1499 n.Chr.	1905 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bern	Oslo

Population

	Switzerland	Norway
Population:	8,575,000	5,348,000
Inhabitants/km²:	207.7	13.9
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 39.0 years
Birthrate:	10.00 ‰	10.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.80 ‰	7.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.55 ‰	3.95 ‰

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	Norway
Political stability:	93	89
Civil rights:	99	100
Health:	93	90
Climate:	26	15
Cost of Living:	42	39
Popularity:	52	49

Economy

	Switzerland	Norway
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	Norwegian Krone (1 NOK =100 Øre)
Unemployment rate:	4.9 %	4.6 %
Inflation rate:	0.36 %	2.17 %
Cost of Living:	153.23 %	134.38 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	36.20 %
Average income:	85,500 US$	82,500 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	84 (good)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	703,082 M US$	81.99 M US$	403,336 M US$	75.42 M US$
Gross national product:	733,126 M US$	85.50 M US$	441,210 M US$	82.50 M US$
Exported goods:	478,339 M US$	55.78 M US$	146,712 M US$	27.43 M US$
Imported goods:	393,995 M US$	45.95 M US$	140,143 M US$	26.21 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.35 km	94,902 km	17.75 km
Railways:	5,690 km	0.66 km	4,200 km	0.79 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	1,577 km	0.29 km
Harbours:	32	0.004	1,576	0.295
Airports:	63	0.007	95	0.018

Energy balance

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.82 m kWh	122.20 bn kWh	22.85 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.88 m kWh	147.70 bn kWh	27.62 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.52 m kWh	15.53 bn kWh	2.90 m kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.98 m kWh	5.74 bn kWh	1.07 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	34.48 m t	4,020.74 t	41.02 m t	7,670.82 t

Telecommunication

	Switzerland	Norway
International dialing:	+41	+47
Internet domain:	.ch	.no

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	NOR total	NOR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,100,000	362	563,250	105
Mobile phones:	10,927,300	1274	5,720,890	1070
Internet server:	5,301,000	618	3,588,000	671
Internet users:	7,987,122	931	5,240,938	980

Healthcare system

	Switzerland	Norway
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.70	3.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	4.63
Diabetes:	5.7 %	5.3 %
HIV:	0.05 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	25.1 %	13.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Switzerland and Norway

	Switzerland	Norway
Daytime temperatures:	13.8 °C	9.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.3 °C	2.1 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	8.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	78 %
Rain days:	10.1	11.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	4.1

Native languages

	Switzerland	Norway
Norwegian:	n/a	96.6 %
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/a	0.5 %
Danish:	n/a	0.4 %
Swedish:	n/a	0.3 %
other:	2.4 %	2.2 %

Religions

	Switzerland	Norway
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 %