Country profile · CH
Switzerland
26 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
9.1m
GDP
€815.9B
GDP per capita
€90,141
Population density
219 /km²
Unemployment
5%
pop-weighted
Employment
82.4%
pop-weighted
Area
41,286.3 km²
NUTS-3 regions
26
Country indicators · 52 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€766.4B
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€4.3B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€166.0B
country total
GVA — information & communication (J)
€160.8B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€70.1B
country total
Labour market
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
84.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.0%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
2.6k
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
327 /M
pop-weighted avg
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
46.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
50.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
26.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
28.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
12.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
99.0%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
60.1m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
542 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
51.7k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
571.4
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
46
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
49
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
5.9m
country total
Population aged 65+
1.8m
country total
Population aged under 15
1.3m
country total
Median age of population
43.0 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.9%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
9.9 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.2 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
8.7 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
8.0 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
78.3k
country total
Deaths
71.9k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.5%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.30
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
635 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
19.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.2 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
437 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
794 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
186 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
23.6 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
514 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,966 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
28 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
731 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
101 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
14 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14.9
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51.7
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP
CH040
Zürich
pop 1.6m · gdp €169.3B
CH021
Bern / Berne
pop 1.1m · gdp €92.1B
CH011
Vaud
pop 855.1k · gdp €66.6B
CH013
Genève
pop 531.1k · gdp €63.2B
CH033
Aargau
pop 735.8k · gdp €49.3B
CH055
St. Gallen
pop 540k · gdp €46.0B
CH031
Basel-Stadt
pop 201.4k · gdp €42.2B
CH070
Ticino
pop 358.9k · gdp €37.2B
CH061
Luzern
pop 437.9k · gdp €32.9B
CH066
Zug
pop 133.7k · gdp €25.7B
CH032
Basel-Landschaft
pop 301.3k · gdp €23.6B
CH012
Valais / Wallis
pop 371.3k · gdp €22.6B