Country comparison Switzerland : United States

General information

	Switzerland	United States
Region:	Western Europe	North America
Area:	41,290 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	German	English
Government form:	Federal republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1499 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bern	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Switzerland	United States
Population:	8,575,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	207.7	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 42.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	10.00 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.80 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.55 ‰	3.03 ‰

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	United States
Political stability:	93	72
Civil rights:	99	83
Health:	93	74
Climate:	26	64
Cost of Living:	42	34
Popularity:	52	86

Economy

	Switzerland	United States
Currency:	Swiss Franc (1 CHF = 100 Rappen)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.9 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	0.36 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	153.23 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	85,500 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	67 (moderate)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	703,082 M US$	81.99 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	733,126 M US$	85.50 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	478,339 M US$	55.78 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	393,995 M US$	45.95 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.35 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	5,690 km	0.66 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,292 km	0.15 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	32	0.004	3,673	0.011
Airports:	63	0.007	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	58.46 bn kWh	6.82 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.88 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.52 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.98 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	34.48 m t	4,020.74 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Switzerland	United States
International dialing:	+41	+1
Internet domain:	.ch	.us

	CHE total	CHE per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,100,000	362	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	10,927,300	1274	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	5,301,000	618	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	7,987,122	931	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Switzerland	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.70	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.24	2.59
Diabetes:	5.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.05 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	25.1 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Switzerland and United States

	Switzerland	United States
Daytime temperatures:	13.8 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.3 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	7.2

Native languages

	Switzerland	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
German:	62.5 %	0.6 %
French:	21.3 %	0.7 %
Spanish:	1.1 %	10.7 %
Italian:	8.3 %	0.6 %
Croatian:	1.4 %	n/a
Albanian:	1.3 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	0.2 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Romansh:	0.5 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	2.4 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Switzerland	United States
Christianity:	70.8 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	21.4 %	n/a
Islam:	4.9 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	0.2 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	2.7 %	15.3 %