Country comparison: Switzerland / Turkey

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Switzerland and Turkey. 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	Turkey
Region:	Western Europe	Western Asia
Area:	41,290 km²	785,350 km²
Official language:	German	Turkish
Government form:	Federal republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1499 AD	1923 AD
Capital:	Bern	Ankara

Population

Details for Switzerland and Turkey

	Switzerland	Turkey
Population:	8,698,000	85,043,000
Inhabitants/km²:	210.6	108.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 42.7 years	Ø 32.2 years
Birthrate:	9.90 ‰	15.53 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	5.48 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.52 ‰	-1.55 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Switzerland	Turkey
Political stability:	91	34
Civil rights:	99	36
Health:	93	64
Climate:	34	62
Cost of Living:	44	59
Popularity:	40	50

Economy

Details for Switzerland and Turkey

	Switzerland	Turkey
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	Turkish Lira (1 TRY =100 Kurus)
Unemployment rate:	5.3 %	13.4 %
Inflation rate:	0.58 %	19.60 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	142.40 %	34.40 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	42.30 %
Average income:	90,360 US$	9,830 US$
Corruption index:	16 (good)	62 (bad)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	812,867 M US$	93.46 M US$	815,272 M US$	9.59 M US$
Gross national product:	785,904 M US$	90.36 M US$	836,295 M US$	9.83 M US$
Exported goods:	567,175 M US$	65.21 M US$	282,851 M US$	3.33 M US$
Imported goods:	462,337 M US$	53.16 M US$	285,578 M US$	3.36 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Switzerland and Turkey

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.23 km	67,333 km	0.79 km
Railways:	3,236 km	0.37 km	10,378 km	0.12 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	1,200 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	28	0.0032	1,217	0.0143
Passenger airports:	5	0.0006	51	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for Switzerland and Turkey

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.72 m kWh	231.10 bn kWh	2.72 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.78 m kWh	261.90 bn kWh	3.08 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.47 m kWh	1.44 bn kWh	16,956.18 kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.92 m kWh	6.33 bn kWh	74,433.16 kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.38 m t	4,297.68 t	396.84 m t	4,666.36 t

Telecommunication

Details for Switzerland and Turkey

	Switzerland	Turkey
International dialing:	+41	+90
Internet domain:	.ch	.tr

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	TUR total	TUR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,071,296	353	12,448,604	146
Mobile cellulars:	11,017,913	1267	82,128,104	966
Internet server:	5,301,000	609	7,093,000	83
Internet users:	8,193,255	942	65,505,783	770
Broadband Internet:	4,028,238	463	16,734,853	197

Healthcare system

Details for Switzerland and Turkey

	Switzerland	Turkey
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.63	2.85
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	1.76
Diabetes:	5.7 %	11.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.15 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	68.0 %	83.0 %
Smokers:	25.5 %	30.7 %

Climate

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

	Switzerland	Turkey
Daytime temperatures:	15.1 °C	20.3 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.3 °C	9.2 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	17.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	63 %
Rain days:	9.5	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.2	6.6

Native languages

	Switzerland	Turkey
Turkish:	n/a	87.6 %
German:	62.5 %	n/a
French:	21.3 %	n/a
Kurdish:	n/a	10.6 %
Italian:	8.3 %	n/a
Croatian:	1.4 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	1.4 %
Albanian:	1.3 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	1.1 %	n/a
Romansh:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	2.4 %	0.4 %

Religions

	Switzerland	Turkey
Islam:	4.9 %	99.0 %
Christianity:	70.8 %	0.2 %
Nondenominational:	21.4 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.2 %	0.1 %
Yazidism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	0.6 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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