Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

Switzerland’s highest peak towers 1,680 m above the Philippines’

Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 38% of Switzerland

Philippines: 42.7% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 13 times as many people as Switzerland

Philippines: 117 million (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

The Philippines is 70% more densely populated than Switzerland

Philippines: 392 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 17 years older than in the Philippines

Philippines: 25.3 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.6 more children on average than in Switzerland

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

20% of people in Switzerland are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Philippines: 5.7% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 2,592 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Switzerland has 4 official languages, the Philippines 2

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

Switzerland’s economy is 2.1 times the size of the Philippines’

Philippines: $487 billion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 8.2 times as much per person as the Philippines

Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Switzerland (Gini 5.8 points higher)

Philippines: 39.3 (2023) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Switzerland

Philippines: 5.3% (2023) · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.9% in Switzerland, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Philippines: 2.2% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

The Philippines spends 1.3% of its GDP on the military, Switzerland 0.8%

Philippines: 1.3% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.8% (2025)

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

Philippines: 14.4% (2024) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 3.4× the Philippines’

Philippines: 33% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

Switzerland spends 61 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Philippines: $194 (2023) · Switzerland: $11,784 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 6.4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Switzerland

Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 5.7 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021) · Switzerland: 4.5 per 1,000 (2022)

Switzerland has 4.5 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

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

The suicide rate in Switzerland is 3.7 times that in the Philippines

Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

13% of adults in Switzerland are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Philippines: 9.7% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

23% of adults in Switzerland smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Philippines: 19.9% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Switzerland rate their lives 0.81 points higher than in the Philippines

Philippines: 6.21 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

Adults in Switzerland drink 44% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Switzerland has 90% more meat per person than the Philippines

Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 419 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 567 more hours a year than in Switzerland

Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 4 years longer than in the Philippines

Philippines: 10 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

Switzerland welcomed 45 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Philippines: 0.02 (2022) · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

Switzerland has 7 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (13 against 6)

Philippines: 6 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Switzerland has won 403 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Philippines: 18 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Philippines: 67% (2024) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 2.4 times as fast as in the Philippines

Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Switzerland have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Philippines: 94.8% (2024) · Switzerland: 100% (2024)

86% of people in Switzerland live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Philippines: 56% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Switzerland has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Philippines: 115 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

Switzerland’s railway network is 8.1 times as long as the Philippines’

Philippines: 509 km (2016) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 8.6 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Philippines: 0.36 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

Forest covers 32% of Switzerland, but only 25% of the Philippines

Philippines: 24.8% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

The average person in Switzerland emits 2.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Philippines: 1.5 t (2024) · Switzerland: 3.6 t (2024)

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

Philippines: 23.3% (2025) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 2.6 times as much fine dust as in Switzerland

Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 7.3 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Switzerland

Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the Philippines are 3.5 times as deadly as in Switzerland

Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 19.8 °C warmer than Switzerland

Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 86% more rain than Switzerland

Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)