Switzerland
Switzerland in numbers
38 measures of Switzerland from 1798 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.76% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$7.15B in 2025
- Military spending per person$849 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel20,000 people in 2020
- National power0.12% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.4% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports33 million TIV in 2023
- Arms exports129 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Switzerland with…
- Switzerland vs India
- Switzerland vs China
- Switzerland vs United States
- Switzerland vs Indonesia
- Switzerland vs Pakistan
- Switzerland vs Nigeria
- Switzerland vs Brazil
- Switzerland vs Bangladesh
- Switzerland vs Russia
- Switzerland vs Ethiopia
- Switzerland vs Mexico
- Switzerland vs Japan
- Switzerland vs Egypt
- Switzerland vs Philippines
- Switzerland vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Switzerland vs Vietnam
- Switzerland vs Iran
- Switzerland vs Türkiye
- Switzerland vs Germany
- Switzerland vs Thailand
- Switzerland vs Tanzania
- Switzerland vs United Kingdom
- Switzerland vs France
- Switzerland vs South Africa
- Switzerland vs Italy
- Switzerland vs Kenya
- Switzerland vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Switzerland vs Colombia
- Switzerland vs South Korea
- Switzerland vs Sudan
- Switzerland vs Spain
- Switzerland vs Argentina
- Switzerland vs Canada
- Switzerland vs Saudi Arabia
- Switzerland vs Poland
- Switzerland vs Australia
- Switzerland vs Netherlands
- Switzerland vs Belgium
- Switzerland vs United Arab Emirates
- Switzerland vs Sweden
- Switzerland vs Israel
- Switzerland vs Austria
- Switzerland vs Singapore
- Switzerland vs Ireland
- Switzerland vs Liechtenstein
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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