Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 565 m above Switzerland’s

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 38% of Switzerland

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

Kenya has 6.3 times as many people as Switzerland

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

Switzerland is 2.3 times as densely populated as Kenya

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 23 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 1.9 more children on average than in Switzerland

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Switzerland: 1.29 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Switzerland are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 2.1 times as many refugees per resident as Kenya

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Switzerland has produced 20.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kenya 0.2

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Switzerland: 20.9 (2026)

Switzerland has 4 official languages, Kenya 2

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Switzerland: 4 (2026)

Switzerland’s economy is 7.7 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 15 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in Switzerland (Gini 5 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Switzerland

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Kenya, versus 4.9% in Switzerland

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

Kenya and Switzerland are practically level

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.8% (2025)

Kenya’s central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, Switzerland’s 9.5%

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 3.3× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

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

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

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

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 15 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

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

Switzerland has 3.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Switzerland: 4.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 65% higher than in Switzerland

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

13% of adults in Switzerland are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

23% of adults in Switzerland smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Switzerland rate their lives 2.34 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

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

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Switzerland has 6.3 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 1,256 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kenya put in 506 more hours a year than in Switzerland

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 5.3 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

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

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

Switzerland has 5 more World Heritage sites than Kenya (13 against 8)

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Switzerland has won 403 Olympic medals, Kenya 124

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 9.7 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Switzerland have electricity, versus 77% in Kenya

Kenya: 77% (2024) · Switzerland: 100% (2024)

86% of people in Switzerland live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Switzerland has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Kenya 126

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

Switzerland’s railway network is 8% longer than Kenya’s

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 34 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

Forest covers 32% of Switzerland, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

The average person in Switzerland emits 9.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Switzerland: 3.6 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 68% in Switzerland

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in Kenya carries 2.4 times as much fine dust as in Switzerland

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 8.2 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in Switzerland

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Kenya are 14 times as deadly as in Switzerland

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

Kenya is on average 19.1 °C warmer than Switzerland

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Switzerland gets 2.3 times as much rain as Kenya

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)