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:	8,637,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	209.2	33.5
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 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.90 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	94	74
Civil rights:	99	83
Health:	93	74
Climate:	32	63
Cost of Living:	1	16
Popularity:	40	72

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:	-0.73 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	158.00 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	87,950 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	67 (moderate)

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	747,969 M US$	86.60 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	754,231 M US$	87.33 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	470,914 M US$	54.52 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	401,912 M US$	46.53 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	71,557 km	8.29 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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:	28	0.003	3,652	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	6.77 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	59.01 bn kWh	6.83 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	30.17 bn kWh	3.49 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	34.10 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.48 m t	4,339.52 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	3,102,504	359	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	10,829,031	1254	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	5,301,000	614	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	8,044,931	931	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	4,023,000	466	120,531,000	366

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 %	0.20 %
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:	15.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.1 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	10.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	77 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.7	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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %