Schweiz - Daten & Fakten

total: 41,277 sq km

land: 39,997 sq km

water: 1,280 sq km

agricultural land: 38.7% (2018 est.)

arable land: 10.2% (2018 est.)

permanent crops: 0.6% (2018 est.)

permanent pasture: 27.9% (2018 est.)

forest: 31.5% (2018 est.)

other: 29.8% (2018 est.)

Central Europe, east of France, north of Italy

0-14 years: 15.49% (male 683,053/female 643,067)

15-64 years: 65.13% (male 2,800,880/female 2,777,109)

65 years and over: 19.38% (2023 est.) (male 745,501/female 914,150)

10.2 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)

8.4 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)

German (or Swiss German) (official) 62.1%, French (official) 22.8%, Italian (official) 8%, English 5.7%, Portuguese 3.5%, Albanian 3.3%, Serbo-Croatian 2.3%, Spanish 2.3%, Romansh (official) 0.5%, other 7.9%; note - German, French, Italian, and Romansh are all national and official languages; shares sum to more than 100% because respondents could indicate more than one main language (2019 est.)

major-language sample(s):
Das World Factbook, die unverzichtbare Quelle für grundlegende Informationen. (German)

The World Factbook, une source indispensable d'informations de base. (French)

L'Almanacco dei fatti del mondo, l'indispensabile fonte per le informazioni di base. (Italian)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information.

total population: 83.8 years (2023 est.)

male: 81.9 years

female: 85.8 years

1.432 million Zurich, 441,000 BERN (capital) (2023)

total: 44 years (2023 est.)

male: 43.3 years

female: 44.8 years

31.1 years (2020 est.)

6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2023 est.)

population distribution corresponds to elevation with the northern and western areas far more heavily populated; the higher Alps of the south limit settlement

0.78% (2023 est.)

1.59 children born/woman (2023 est.)

urban population: 74.2% of total population (2023)

rate of urbanization: 0.79% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)

5.2% of GDP (2020 est.)

total: 17 years

male: 17 years

female: 17 years (2020)

1.1% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

7.91% (2021 est.)

4.963 million (2021 est.)

16% (2018 est.)

5.32% (2021 est.)

4.82% (2020 est.)

4.39% (2019 est.)

20.91% of GDP (2020 est.)

18.95% of GDP (2019 est.)

18.68% of GDP (2018 est.)

note: general government gross debt; gross debt consists of all liabilities that require payment or payments of interest and/or principal by the debtor to the creditor at a date or dates in the future; includes debt liabilities in the form of Special Drawing Rights, currency and deposits, debt securities, loans, insurance, pensions and standardized guarantee schemes, and other accounts payable; all liabilities in the Government Financial Systems Manual 2001 system are debt, except for equity and investment fund shares and financial derivatives and employee stock options

0.58% (2021 est.)

-0.73% (2020 est.)

0.36% (2019 est.)

$571.376 billion (2021 est.) ; note - data are in current year dollars

$474.236 billion (2020 est.) ; note - data are in current year dollars

$478.505 billion (2019 est.) ; note - data are in current year dollars

note: trade data exclude trade with Switzerland

Germany 16%, United States 14%, United Kingdom 8%, China 7%, France 6%, India 6%, Italy 5% (2019)

$480.522 billion (2021 est.) ; note - data are in current year dollars

$429.979 billion (2020 est.) ; note - data are in current year dollars

$413.404 billion (2019 est.) ; note - data are in current year dollars

Germany 21%, Italy 8%, France 6%, United States 6%, United Kingdom 5%, United Arab Emirates 5% (2019)

63 (2021)

total: 4,028,238 (2020 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 47 (2020 est.)

total: 8.352 million (2021 est.)

percent of population: 96% (2021 est.)

total: 5,296 km (2020) 5,296 km electrified; Switzerland remains the only country with a fully electrified network

total: 71,557 km (2017)

paved: 71,557 km (2017) (includes 1,458 of expressways)

total subscriptions: 2,956,500 (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 34 (2021 est.)

total subscriptions: 11,060,700 (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 127 (2021 est.)

1,292 km (2010) (there are 1,227 km of waterways on lakes and rivers for public transport and 65 km on the Rhine River between Basel-Rheinfelden and Schaffhausen-Bodensee for commercial goods transport)