Country comparison Switzerland : Turkey

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 n.Chr.	1923 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bern	Ankara

Population

	Switzerland	Turkey
Population:	8,637,000	84,339,000
Inhabitants/km²:	209.2	107.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 42.0 years	Ø 29.4 years
Birthrate:	10.00 ‰	15.78 ‰
Deathrate:	7.90 ‰	5.44 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.55 ‰	-1.55 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Switzerland	Turkey
Political stability:	90	30
Civil rights:	99	38
Health:	93	63
Climate:	32	60
Cost of Living:	42	57
Popularity:	40	49

Economy

	Switzerland	Turkey
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	Turkish Lira (1 TRY =100 Kurus)
Unemployment rate:	4.9 %	13.9 %
Inflation rate:	-0.73 %	12.28 %
Cost of Living:	158.00 %	39.38 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	42.30 %
Average income:	87,950 US$	9,050 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	40 (bad)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	747,969 M US$	86.60 M US$	720,101 M US$	8.54 M US$
Gross national product:	754,231 M US$	87.33 M US$	763,333 M US$	9.05 M US$
Exported goods:	470,914 M US$	54.52 M US$	203,288 M US$	2.41 M US$
Imported goods:	401,912 M US$	46.53 M US$	232,005 M US$	2.75 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.29 km	67,333 km	0.80 km
Railways:	5,690 km	0.66 km	12,710 km	0.15 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	1,200 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	28	0.003	1,216	0.014
Airports:	63	0.007	98	0.001

Energy balance

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.77 m kWh	231.10 bn kWh	2.74 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.83 m kWh	261.90 bn kWh	3.11 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.49 m kWh	1.44 bn kWh	17,097.65 kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh	6.33 bn kWh	75,054.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.48 m t	4,339.52 t	412.97 m t	4,896.54 t

Telecommunication

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

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	TUR total	TUR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,102,504	359	11,532,903	137
Mobile cellulars:	10,829,031	1254	80,790,877	958
Internet server:	5,301,000	614	7,093,000	84
Internet users:	8,044,931	931	62,391,262	740
Broadband Internet:	4,023,000	466	16,734,853	198

Healthcare system

	Switzerland	Turkey
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.70	2.70
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	1.76
Diabetes:	5.7 %	11.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.2 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	25.1 %	29.3 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Switzerland and Turkey

	Switzerland	Turkey
Daytime temperatures:	15.0 °C	19.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.1 °C	8.6 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	16.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	77 %	66 %
Rain days:	9.7	6.5
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	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 %