India: 7,000 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

India’s highest peak towers 3,952 m above Switzerland’s

India: 8,586 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 60% of India, versus 38% of Switzerland

India: 59.9% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

India has 161 times as many people as Switzerland

India: 1.46 billion (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

India is 2.1 times as densely populated as Switzerland

India: 492 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 14 years older than in India

India: 28.1 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in India have 0.7 more children on average than in Switzerland

India: 1.96 children per woman (2024) · Switzerland: 1.29 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Switzerland are 65 or older, versus 7.4% in India

India: 7.4% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 141 times as many refugees per resident as India

India: 0.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Switzerland has 4 official languages, India 3

India: 3 (2026) · Switzerland: 4 (2026)

India’s economy is 3.8 times the size of Switzerland’s

India: $3.96 trillion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 8.7 times as much per person as India

India: Int$11,748 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Switzerland than in India (Gini 10.5 points higher)

India: 23 (2023) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

2.6% of people in India live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Switzerland

India: 2.6% (2023) · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.9% in Switzerland, versus 4.2% in India

India: 4.2% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

India spends 2.3% of its GDP on the military, Switzerland 0.8%

India: 2.3% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.8% (2025)

Switzerland’s central government collects 9.5% of GDP in tax, India’s 6.9%

India: 6.9% (2022) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 4.9× India’s

India: 23% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

Switzerland spends 139 times as much on health per person as India

India: $85 (2023) · Switzerland: $11,784 (2023)

A baby in India is 6.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in Switzerland

India: 23.3 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 6.2 times as many doctors per person as India

India: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Switzerland: 4.5 per 1,000 (2022)

Switzerland has 2.8 times as many hospital beds per person as India

India: 1.6 per 1,000 (2021) · Switzerland: 4.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in India is 32% higher than in Switzerland

India: 15.3 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

13% of adults in Switzerland are obese, versus 8.0% in India

India: 8% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

23% of adults in Switzerland smoke, versus 23% in India

India: 22.6% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Switzerland rate their lives 2.48 points higher than in India

India: 4.54 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

Adults in Switzerland drink 67% more alcohol than in India

India: 5.2 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Switzerland has 7.9 times as much meat per person as India

India: 8.1 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 734 kcal more food per person per day than India

India: 2,669 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in India put in 854 more hours a year than in Switzerland

India: 2,383 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 7.1 years longer than in India

India: 6.9 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

Switzerland welcomed 154 times as many tourists per resident as India (2019)

India: 0.01 (2024) · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

India has 32 more World Heritage sites than Switzerland (45 against 13)

India: 45 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Switzerland has won 403 Olympic medals, India 41

India: 41 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 70% in India

India: 70% (2025) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 4.4 times as fast as in India

India: 91 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

Switzerland and India are practically level

India: 99.9% (2024) · Switzerland: 100% (2024)

86% of people in Switzerland live in cities, versus 36% in India

India: 36% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Switzerland has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, India 79

India: 79 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

India’s railway network is 17 times as long as Switzerland’s

India: 68,103 km (2021) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 25 times as many passengers per resident as those from India

India: 0.12 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

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

India: 24.4% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

The average person in Switzerland emits 63% more CO₂ than someone in India

India: 2.2 t (2024) · Switzerland: 3.6 t (2024)

68% of Switzerland’s electricity is renewable, versus 24% in India

India: 24.1% (2025) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in India carries 4.9 times as much fine dust as in Switzerland

India: 44.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.7 times as likely to be murdered in India as in Switzerland

India: 2.8 per 100k (2022) · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in India are 6.5 times as deadly as in Switzerland

India: 25.4 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

India is on average 17.9 °C warmer than Switzerland

India: 24.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Switzerland gets 27% more rain than India

India: 1,268 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)