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 AD	1905 AD
Capital:	Bern	Oslo

Population

	Switzerland	Norway
Population:	8,637,000	5,379,000
Inhabitants/km²:	209.2	14.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 42.7 years	Ø 39.5 years
Birthrate:	9.90 ‰	9.80 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	7.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.55 ‰	3.95 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Switzerland	Norway
Political stability:	91	88
Civil rights:	99	99
Health:	93	90
Climate:	34	16
Cost of Living:	42	39
Popularity:	46	37

Economy

	Switzerland	Norway
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	Norwegian Krone (1 NOK =100 Øre)
Unemployment rate:	5.3 %	5.0 %
Inflation rate:	0.58 %	3.48 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	144.71 %	123.85 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	36.20 %
Average income:	82,620 US$	78,290 US$
Corruption index:	84 (good)	85 (good)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	752,248 M US$	87.10 M US$	362,198 M US$	67.33 M US$
Gross national product:	713,590 M US$	82.62 M US$	421,184 M US$	78.29 M US$
Exported goods:	468,683 M US$	54.27 M US$	116,718 M US$	21.70 M US$
Imported goods:	416,573 M US$	48.23 M US$	119,632 M US$	22.24 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.29 km	94,902 km	17.64 km
Railways:	3,236 km	0.37 km	4,200 km	0.78 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	1,577 km	0.29 km
Harbours:	28	0.003	1,644	0.306
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	6.77 m kWh	122.20 bn kWh	22.72 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.83 m kWh	147.70 bn kWh	27.46 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.49 m kWh	15.53 bn kWh	2.89 m kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh	5.74 bn kWh	1.07 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.48 m t	4,339.69 t	37.35 m t	6,943.06 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:	2,952,000	342	348,808	65
Mobile cellulars:	10,900,000	1262	5,825,584	1083
Internet server:	5,301,000	614	3,588,000	667
Internet users:	8,044,931	931	5,218,091	970
Broadband Internet:	4,028,238	466	2,387,661	444

Healthcare system

	Switzerland	Norway
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.63	3.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	4.63
Diabetes:	5.7 %	5.3 %
HIV:	0.05 %	0.03 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	68.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	25.5 %	16.2 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Switzerland and Norway

	Switzerland	Norway
Daytime temperatures:	15.1 °C	8.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.3 °C	2.0 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	8.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	78 %
Rain days:	9.5	11.5
Sunshine hours per day:	5.2	4.2

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 %