Mexico: 9,330 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

Mexico’s highest peak towers 1,002 m above Switzerland’s

Mexico: 5,636 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 51% of Mexico, versus 38% of Switzerland

Mexico: 50.6% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

Mexico has 15 times as many people as Switzerland

Mexico: 132 million (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

Switzerland is 3.4 times as densely populated as Mexico

Mexico: 68 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 13 years older than in Mexico

Mexico: 28.9 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in Mexico have 0.6 more children on average than in Switzerland

Mexico: 1.89 children per woman (2024) · Switzerland: 1.29 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Switzerland are 65 or older, versus 8.5% in Mexico

Mexico: 8.5% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 20 times as many refugees per resident as Mexico

Mexico: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Switzerland has 4 official languages, Mexico 1

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

Mexico’s economy is 76% larger than Switzerland’s

Mexico: $1.83 trillion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 4 times as much per person as Mexico

Mexico: Int$25,869 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Mexico than in Switzerland (Gini 9.1 points higher)

Mexico: 42.6 (2024) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

1.6% of people in Mexico live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Switzerland

Mexico: 1.6% (2024) · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.9% in Switzerland, versus 2.7% in Mexico

Mexico: 2.7% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

Switzerland and Mexico are practically level

Mexico: 0.7% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.8% (2025)

Mexico’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Switzerland’s 9.5%

Mexico: 14.8% (2024) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 2.1× Mexico’s

Mexico: 54% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

Switzerland spends 15 times as much on health per person as Mexico

Mexico: $761 (2023) · Switzerland: $11,784 (2023)

A baby in Mexico is 3.6 times as likely to die before turning one as in Switzerland

Mexico: 12.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 73% more doctors per person than Mexico

Mexico: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Switzerland: 4.5 per 1,000 (2022)

Switzerland has 4.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Mexico

Mexico: 1 per 1,000 (2022) · Switzerland: 4.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Switzerland is 33% higher than in Mexico

Mexico: 8.7 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

37% of adults in Mexico are obese, versus 13% in Switzerland

Mexico: 37.4% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

23% of adults in Switzerland smoke, versus 16% in Mexico

Mexico: 15.7% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Switzerland rate their lives 0.05 points higher than in Mexico

Mexico: 6.97 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

Adults in Switzerland drink 31% more alcohol than in Mexico

Mexico: 6.7 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Mexico has 22% more meat per person than Switzerland

Mexico: 78.2 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 98 kcal more food per person per day than Mexico

Mexico: 3,305 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in Mexico put in 100 more hours a year than in Switzerland

Mexico: 1,629 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 4.6 years longer than in Mexico

Mexico: 9.3 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

Switzerland welcomed 3 times as many tourists per resident as Mexico (2019)

Mexico: 0.34 (2024) · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

Mexico has 23 more World Heritage sites than Switzerland (36 against 13)

Mexico: 36 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Switzerland has won 403 Olympic medals, Mexico 77

Mexico: 77 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 83% in Mexico

Mexico: 83% (2024) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 2.6 times as fast as in Mexico

Mexico: 152 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

Switzerland and Mexico are practically level

Mexico: 99.8% (2024) · Switzerland: 100% (2024)

86% of people in Switzerland live in cities, versus 80% in Mexico

Mexico: 80% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Switzerland has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Mexico 116

Mexico: 116 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

Mexico’s railway network is 5.7 times as long as Switzerland’s

Mexico: 23,389 km (2017) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 5.1 times as many passengers per resident as those from Mexico

Mexico: 0.6 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Mexico, but only 32% of Switzerland

Mexico: 34.2% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

The average person in Switzerland emits 2% more CO₂ than someone in Mexico

Mexico: 3.5 t (2024) · Switzerland: 3.6 t (2024)

68% of Switzerland’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in Mexico

Mexico: 23.1% (2025) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in Mexico carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Switzerland

Mexico: 18.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 42 times as likely to be murdered in Mexico as in Switzerland

Mexico: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Mexico are 4.9 times as deadly as in Switzerland

Mexico: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

Mexico is on average 14.9 °C warmer than Switzerland

Mexico: 21.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Switzerland gets 2 times as much rain as Mexico

Mexico: 788 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)