Country comparison: Switzerland / Poland

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Switzerland and Poland. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.

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

Details for Switzerland and Poland

	Switzerland	Poland
Population:	8,698,000	37,781,000
Inhabitants/km²:	210.6	120.8
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:	9.90 ‰	9.40 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	12.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.52 ‰	-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	69
Civil rights:	99	66
Health:	93	79
Climate:	34	27
Cost of Living:	44	58
Popularity:	40	52

Economy

Details for Switzerland and Poland

	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%)	142.40 %	51.07 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	40.80 %
Average income:	90,360 US$	16,670 US$
Corruption index:	16 (good)	44 (moderate)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	812,867 M US$	93.46 M US$	674,048 M US$	17.84 M US$
Gross national product:	785,904 M US$	90.36 M US$	629,922 M US$	16.67 M US$
Exported goods:	567,175 M US$	65.21 M US$	411,630 M US$	10.90 M US$
Imported goods:	462,337 M US$	53.16 M US$	380,851 M US$	10.08 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Switzerland and Poland

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.23 km	420,000 km	11.12 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:	20	0.0023	143	0.0038
Passenger airports:	5	0.0006	15	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Switzerland and Poland

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.72 m kWh	149.40 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.78 m kWh	156.90 bn kWh	4.15 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.47 m kWh	12.02 bn kWh	318,149.13 kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.92 m kWh	14.02 bn kWh	371,085.76 kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.38 m t	4,297.68 t	295.13 m t	7,811.59 t

Telecommunication

Details for Switzerland and Poland

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

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	POL total	POL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,071,296	353	5,777,428	153
Mobile cellulars:	11,017,913	1267	49,350,724	1306
Internet server:	5,301,000	609	13,265,000	351
Internet users:	8,193,255	942	31,428,102	832
Broadband Internet:	4,028,238	463	8,369,218	222

Healthcare system

Details for Switzerland and Poland

	Switzerland	Poland
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.63	6.54
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	2.40
Diabetes:	5.7 %	6.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.10 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	68.0 %	54.0 %
Smokers:	25.5 %	24.0 %

Climate

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

	Switzerland	Poland
Daytime temperatures:	15.3 °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 %

Data inventory and updates

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