Country comparison Switzerland : Poland

General information

	Switzerland	Poland
Region:	Western Europe	Eastern Europe
Area:	41,290 km²	312,680 km²
Official language:	German	Polish
Government form:	Federal republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1499 AD	1918 AD
Capital:	Bern	Warsaw

Population

	Switzerland	Poland
Population:	8,637,000	37,951,000
Inhabitants/km²:	209.2	121.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 73 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 42.7 years	Ø 41.9 years
Birthrate:	10.00 ‰	9.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.90 ‰	10.80 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.55 ‰	-0.33 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Switzerland	Poland
Political stability:	91	68
Civil rights:	99	67
Health:	93	79
Climate:	34	26
Cost of Living:	42	57
Popularity:	46	70

Economy

	Switzerland	Poland
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	Zloty (1 PLN =100 Groszy)
Unemployment rate:	5.3 %	3.4 %
Inflation rate:	0.58 %	5.06 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	144.71 %	50.18 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	40.80 %
Average income:	82,620 US$	15,260 US$
Corruption index:	84 (good)	56 (moderate)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	752,248 M US$	87.10 M US$	596,624 M US$	15.72 M US$
Gross national product:	713,590 M US$	82.62 M US$	578,462 M US$	15.24 M US$
Exported goods:	468,683 M US$	54.27 M US$	336,317 M US$	8.86 M US$
Imported goods:	416,573 M US$	48.23 M US$	295,897 M US$	7.80 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.29 km	420,000 km	11.07 km
Railways:	3,236 km	0.37 km	18,538 km	0.49 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	3,997 km	0.11 km
Harbours:	28	0.003	143	0.004
Airports:	63	0.007	126	0.003

Energy balance

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.77 m kWh	149.40 bn kWh	3.94 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.83 m kWh	156.90 bn kWh	4.13 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.49 m kWh	12.02 bn kWh	316,725.85 kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh	14.02 bn kWh	369,425.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.48 m t	4,339.52 t	312.74 m t	8,240.67 t

Telecommunication

	Switzerland	Poland
International dialing:	+41	+48
Internet domain:	.ch	.pl

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	POL total	POL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,952,000	342	5,777,428	152
Mobile cellulars:	10,900,000	1262	49,350,724	1300
Internet server:	5,301,000	614	13,265,000	350
Internet users:	8,044,931	931	32,955,310	868
Broadband Internet:	4,028,238	466	8,369,218	221

Healthcare system

	Switzerland	Poland
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.63	6.54
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	2.40
Diabetes:	5.7 %	6.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	68.0 %	54.0 %
Smokers:	25.7 %	24.7 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Switzerland and Poland

	Switzerland	Poland
Daytime temperatures:	15.1 °C	13.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.4 °C	4.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	76 %
Rain days:	9.5	8.6
Sunshine hours per day:	5.2	5.1

Native languages

	Switzerland	Poland
Polish:	n/a	97.6 %
German:	62.5 %	1.3 %
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
Ukrainian:	n/a	0.6 %
Romansh:	0.5 %	n/a
Byelorussian:	n/a	0.5 %
other:	2.4 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Switzerland	Poland
Christianity:	70.8 %	88.7 %
Nondenominational:	21.4 %	n/a
Islam:	4.9 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	11.3 %