Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

Switzerland’s highest peak towers 2,534 m above Sweden’s

Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 38% of Switzerland, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Sweden: 7.3% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

Sweden has 17% more people than Switzerland

Sweden: 10.6 million (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

Switzerland is 8.8 times as densely populated as Sweden

Sweden: 26 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 2.4 years older than in Sweden

Sweden: 39.9 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in Sweden have 0.1 more children on average than in Switzerland

Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024) · Switzerland: 1.29 children per woman (2024)

Sweden and Switzerland are practically level

Sweden: 20.9% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 68% more refugees per resident than Sweden

Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Switzerland 20.9

Sweden: 28.3 (2026) · Switzerland: 20.9 (2026)

Switzerland has 4 official languages, Sweden 1

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

Switzerland’s economy is 56% larger than Sweden’s

Sweden: $669 billion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 41% more per person than Sweden

Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Switzerland than in Sweden (Gini 4.2 points higher)

Sweden: 29.3 (2023) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

0.8% of people in Sweden live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Switzerland

Sweden: 0.8% (2023) · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 4.9% in Switzerland

Sweden: 8.7% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Switzerland 0.8%

Sweden: 2.5% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.8% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Switzerland’s 9.5%

Sweden: 27.2% (2024) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Sweden’s

Sweden: 87% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

Switzerland spends 82% more on health per person than Sweden

Sweden: $6,485 (2024) · Switzerland: $11,784 (2023)

A baby in Switzerland is 70% more likely to die before turning one than in Sweden

Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 2% more doctors per person than Sweden

Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021) · Switzerland: 4.5 per 1,000 (2022)

Switzerland has 2.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Sweden

Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022) · Switzerland: 4.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 9% higher than in Switzerland

Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 13% in Switzerland

Sweden: 18.7% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

23% of adults in Switzerland smoke, versus 20% in Sweden

Sweden: 20.3% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 0.24 points higher than in Switzerland

Sweden: 7.26 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

Switzerland and Sweden are nearly identical here

Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Sweden has 7% more meat per person than Switzerland

Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 36 kcal more food per person per day than Sweden

Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in Switzerland put in 97 more hours a year than in Sweden

Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 1.2 years longer than in Sweden

Sweden: 12.7 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

Switzerland welcomed 65% more tourists per resident than Sweden (2019)

Sweden: 0.63 (2022) · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

Sweden has 2 more World Heritage sites than Switzerland (15 against 13)

Sweden: 15 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Switzerland 403

Sweden: 709 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 96% in Sweden

Sweden: 96% (2025) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 61% faster than in Sweden

Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

Sweden and Switzerland are practically level

Sweden: 100% (2024) · Switzerland: 100% (2024)

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 86% in Switzerland

Sweden: 89% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Switzerland 129

Sweden: 141 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 2.4 times as long as Switzerland’s

Sweden: 9,714 km (2021) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 65% more passengers per resident than those from Sweden

Sweden: 1.85 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 32% of Switzerland

Sweden: 68.6% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

Switzerland and Sweden are nearly identical here

Sweden: 3.6 t (2024) · Switzerland: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 68% in Switzerland

Sweden: 71.2% (2025) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in Switzerland carries 58% more fine dust than in Sweden

Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 92% more likely to be murdered in Sweden than in Switzerland

Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Switzerland are 15% deadlier than in Sweden

Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

Switzerland is on average 2.2 °C warmer than Sweden

Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Switzerland gets 2 times as much rain as Sweden

Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)