Country comparison Switzerland : Sweden

General information

	Switzerland	Sweden
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	41,290 km²	447,430 km²
Official language:	German	Swedish
Government form:	Federal republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1499 AD	836 AD
Capital:	Bern	Stockholm

Population

	Switzerland	Sweden
Population:	8,698,000	10,416,000
Inhabitants/km²:	210.6	23.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 42.7 years	Ø 41.1 years
Birthrate:	9.90 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	9.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.52 ‰	3.60 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Switzerland	Sweden
Political stability:	91	87
Civil rights:	99	99
Health:	93	85
Climate:	34	20
Cost of Living:	44	40
Popularity:	46	37

Economy

	Switzerland	Sweden
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	Swedish Krone (1 SEK =100 Öre)
Unemployment rate:	5.3 %	8.7 %
Inflation rate:	0.58 %	2.16 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	142.40 %	109.31 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	49.10 %
Average income:	90,360 US$	58,890 US$
Corruption index:	16 (good)	15 (good)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	812,867 M US$	93.46 M US$	627,438 M US$	60.24 M US$
Gross national product:	785,904 M US$	90.36 M US$	613,362 M US$	58.89 M US$
Exported goods:	567,175 M US$	65.21 M US$	292,019 M US$	28.04 M US$
Imported goods:	462,337 M US$	53.16 M US$	264,326 M US$	25.38 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.23 km	573,134 km	55.03 km
Railways:	3,236 km	0.37 km	9,701 km	0.93 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	2,052 km	0.20 km
Harbours:	28	0.003	370	0.036
Airports:	63	0.007	231	0.022

Energy balance

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.72 m kWh	133.50 bn kWh	12.82 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.78 m kWh	152.90 bn kWh	14.68 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.47 m kWh	26.02 bn kWh	2.50 m kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.92 m kWh	14.29 bn kWh	1.37 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.38 m t	4,297.68 t	35.00 m t	3,360.28 t

Telecommunication

	Switzerland	Sweden
International dialing:	+41	+46
Internet domain:	.ch	.se

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	SWE total	SWE per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,071,296	353	1,478,610	142
Mobile cellulars:	11,017,913	1267	12,791,840	1228
Internet server:	5,301,000	609	5,978,000	574
Internet users:	8,193,255	942	9,847,048	945
Broadband Internet:	4,028,238	463	4,179,574	401

Healthcare system

	Switzerland	Sweden
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.63	2.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	5.40
Diabetes:	5.7 %	4.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	68.0 %	61.0 %
Smokers:	25.5 %	24.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Switzerland and Sweden

	Switzerland	Sweden
Daytime temperatures:	15.1 °C	9.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.3 °C	2.0 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	8.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	80 %
Rain days:	9.5	9.2
Sunshine hours per day:	5.2	5.0

Native languages

	Switzerland	Sweden
Swedish:	n/a	89.5 %
German:	62.5 %	n/a
French:	21.3 %	n/a
Italian:	8.3 %	n/a
Finnish:	n/a	2.4 %
Croatian:	1.4 %	n/a
Albanian:	1.3 %	n/a
North Slavic languages:	n/a	1.3 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	1.1 %	0.6 %
Arabic:	n/a	0.8 %
Romansh:	0.5 %	n/a
Norwegian:	n/a	0.5 %
other:	2.4 %	4.9 %

Religions

	Switzerland	Sweden
Christianity:	70.8 %	87.0 %
Nondenominational:	21.4 %	n/a
Islam:	4.9 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.2 %	0.2 %
other:	2.7 %	12.8 %