Ghana: 539 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

Switzerland’s highest peak towers 3,749 m above Ghana’s

Ghana: 885 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Ghana, versus 38% of Switzerland

Ghana: 55.4% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

Ghana has 3.9 times as many people as Switzerland

Ghana: 35.1 million (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

Switzerland is 49% more densely populated than Ghana

Ghana: 154 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 21 years older than in Ghana

Ghana: 20.9 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in Ghana have 2.1 more children on average than in Switzerland

Ghana: 3.34 children per woman (2024) · Switzerland: 1.29 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Switzerland are 65 or older, versus 3.8% in Ghana

Ghana: 3.8% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 38 times as many refugees per resident as Ghana

Ghana: 0.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Switzerland has produced 20.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ghana 0.3

Ghana: 0.3 (2026) · Switzerland: 20.9 (2026)

Switzerland has 4 official languages, Ghana 1

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

Switzerland’s economy is 9.1 times the size of Ghana’s

Ghana: $114 billion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 12 times as much per person as Ghana

Ghana: Int$8,610 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ghana than in Switzerland (Gini 10 points higher)

Ghana: 43.5 (2016) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

Ghana: no data · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.9% in Switzerland, versus 3.0% in Ghana

Ghana: 3% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

Switzerland and Ghana are practically level

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

Ghana’s central government collects 12% of GDP in tax, Switzerland’s 9.5%

Ghana: 12.4% (2023) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 3× Ghana’s

Ghana: 38% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

Switzerland spends 168 times as much on health per person as Ghana

Ghana: $70 (2023) · Switzerland: $11,784 (2023)

A baby in Ghana is 8.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Switzerland

Ghana: 27.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 17 times as many doctors per person as Ghana

Ghana: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Switzerland: 4.5 per 1,000 (2022)

Switzerland has 6.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Ghana

Ghana: 0.7 per 1,000 (2015) · Switzerland: 4.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ghana is 48% higher than in Switzerland

Ghana: 17.2 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

14% of adults in Ghana are obese, versus 13% in Switzerland

Ghana: 13.8% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

23% of adults in Switzerland smoke, versus 3.3% in Ghana

Ghana: 3.3% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Switzerland rate their lives 2.46 points higher than in Ghana

Ghana: 4.55 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

Adults in Switzerland drink 3.4 times as much alcohol as in Ghana

Ghana: 2.6 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Switzerland has 3.7 times as much meat per person as Ghana

Ghana: 17.4 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 277 kcal more food per person per day than Ghana

Ghana: 3,125 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ghana put in 127 more hours a year than in Switzerland

Ghana: 1,656 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 6.8 years longer than in Ghana

Ghana: 7.1 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

Switzerland welcomed 38 times as many tourists per resident as Ghana (2019)

Ghana: 0.03 (2022) · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

Switzerland has 11 more World Heritage sites than Ghana (13 against 2)

Ghana: 2 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Switzerland has won 403 Olympic medals, Ghana 5

Ghana: 5 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 72% in Ghana

Ghana: 72% (2024) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 4.3 times as fast as in Ghana

Ghana: 92 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Switzerland have electricity, versus 92% in Ghana

Ghana: 91.9% (2024) · Switzerland: 100% (2024)

86% of people in Switzerland live in cities, versus 59% in Ghana

Ghana: 59% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Switzerland has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ghana 114

Ghana: 114 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

Switzerland’s railway network is 4.4 times as long as Ghana’s

Ghana: 947 km (2022) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 243 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ghana

Ghana: 0.01 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

Forest covers 32% of Switzerland, but only 31% of Ghana

Ghana: 30.9% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

The average person in Switzerland emits 5.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ghana

Ghana: 0.6 t (2024) · Switzerland: 3.6 t (2024)

68% of Switzerland’s electricity is renewable, versus 36% in Ghana

Ghana: 36.2% (2024) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in Ghana carries 3.1 times as much fine dust as in Switzerland

Ghana: 28.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.1 times as likely to be murdered in Ghana as in Switzerland

Ghana: 1.8 per 100k (2022) · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ghana are 14 times as deadly as in Switzerland

Ghana: 54.9 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

Ghana is on average 21.4 °C warmer than Switzerland

Ghana: 27.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Switzerland gets 45% more rain than Ghana

Ghana: 1,118 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)