Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

Switzerland’s highest peak towers 84 m above Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 38% of Switzerland, versus 34% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

Ethiopia has 15 times as many people as Switzerland

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

Switzerland is 91% more densely populated than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 24 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 2.6 more children on average than in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Switzerland: 1.29 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Switzerland are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 3.1 times as many refugees per resident as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Switzerland has produced 20.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Switzerland: 20.9 (2026)

Switzerland has 4 official languages, Ethiopia 1

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Switzerland: 4 (2026)

Switzerland’s economy is 8.3 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 28 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Switzerland than in Ethiopia (Gini 2.4 points higher)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.9% in Switzerland, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

Switzerland and Ethiopia are practically level

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.8% (2025)

Switzerland’s central government collects 9.5% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 4.3× Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

Switzerland spends 339 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Switzerland: $11,784 (2023)

A baby in Ethiopia is 10 times as likely to die before turning one as in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 31 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Switzerland: 4.5 per 1,000 (2022)

Switzerland has 13 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Switzerland: 4.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 24% higher than in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

13% of adults in Switzerland are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

23% of adults in Switzerland smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Switzerland rate their lives 3.03 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

Adults in Switzerland drink 3.9 times as much alcohol as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Switzerland has 9.3 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 844 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ethiopia put in 70 more hours a year than in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 12 years longer than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

Switzerland welcomed 257 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

Switzerland has 1 more World Heritage site than Ethiopia (13 against 12)

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Switzerland has won 403 Olympic medals, Ethiopia 62

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 18 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Switzerland have electricity, versus 57% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 56.6% (2024) · Switzerland: 100% (2024)

86% of people in Switzerland live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Switzerland has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

Switzerland’s railway network is 5.5 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 27 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

Forest covers 32% of Switzerland, but only 24% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

The average person in Switzerland emits 27 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Switzerland: 3.6 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 68% in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in Ethiopia carries 2.2 times as much fine dust as in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

Ethiopia: no data · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ethiopia are 6.1 times as deadly as in Switzerland

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 17.4 °C warmer than Switzerland

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Switzerland gets 68% more rain than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)