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IndicatorCHESwitzerlandEurope & Central Asia
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #6
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile88.5rank #4
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.85rank #3
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.82rank #4
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.97rank #4
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile87.1rank #7
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #6
Military spending% GDP0.72%rank #126
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.79rank #1
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile82.6rank #36
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile82.8rank #7
Rule of Law0-100 percentile87.3rank #4
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-11rank #2
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.88rank #5
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.84rank #4
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile85.6rank #8
Women in parliament% seats39%rank #34
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #10
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment2.2%rank #151
Agriculture value added% GDP0.64%rank #150
Annual working hours per workerhours1,528.9rank #115
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker561,785.1rank #12
Current account balance% GDP7%rank #8
Employment-to-population ratio%62.4%rank #52
FDI net inflows% GDP-1.2%rank #90
GDPcurrent US$1.04Trank #20
GDP growth%1.3%rank #150
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$114,769rank #3
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $85,732.1rank #7
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $81,948.9rank #7
Government expenditure% GDP16.1%rank #78
Gross capital formation% GDP29.5%rank #24
Gross savings% GDP36.7%rank #6
High-technology exports% manuf. exports29.6%rank #14
Human capital indexindex3.7rank #8
Industry value added% GDP25%rank #75
Inflation%0.15%rank #16
Labour force participation rate%65.9%rank #52
Personal remittances received% GDP0.37%rank #74
R&D expenditure% GDP3.2%rank #9
Researchers in R&Dper million6,108rank #9
Tax revenue% GDP9.5%rank #81
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.97rank #8
Trade openness% GDP147.2%rank #17
Unemployment% labor force4.9%rank #82
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%5.3%rank #100
Vulnerable employment% employment9.6%rank #36
Youth unemployment% ages 15-249%rank #60
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-249.7%rank #69
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #10
Basic sanitation access% pop99.9%rank #10
Child mortalityper 1000.39rank #16
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,402.4rank #35
DTP3 immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Health spending% GDP11.7%rank #10
Infant mortalityper 1k births3.4rank #17
Life expectancyyears84.4rank #5
Maternal mortalityper 100k5rank #5
Measles immunization% children96%rank #4
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Physiciansper 1k4.5rank #15
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m38.3rank #33
Road traffic deathsper 100k2.2rank #7
Smoking prevalence% adults23.1%rank #84
Suicide mortality rateper 100k14rank #144
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k5.4rank #28
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births3.9rank #31
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP4.9%rank #51
Expected years of schoolingyears16.7rank #32
Mean years of schoolingyears13.9rank #2
Primary completion rate% relevant age94%rank #66
Primary enrollment% gross101.2%rank #53
Secondary enrollment% gross101.4%rank #32
Tertiary enrollment% gross73.5%rank #25
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0008.7rank #167
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.3rank #178
Median age of populationyears42.3rank #29
Net migration rateper 1,0005.1rank #38
Populationpeople9.09Mrank #98
Population growth%0.96%rank #103
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years87.3rank #7
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands9,342.6rank #104
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age53rank #126
Urban population%85.7%rank #34
Climate
CO₂ emissionst32.07Mrank #73
CO₂ per capitat3.6rank #93
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation52.3%rank #14
Electricity from solar% generation12.1%rank #25
Electricity from wind% generation0.22%rank #76
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita7,117.3rank #14
Forest area% land32.4%rank #105
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita4.8rank #95
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh39.2rank #6
Renewable electricity%67.8%rank #22
Renewable energy share%27.7%rank #77
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e43.1rank #95
Society
Asylum seekerspeople33rank #14
Extreme poverty% pop0.2%rank #3
Female labor participation%62.2%rank #34
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10047rank #8
Gender Development Indexratio0.98rank #45
Gender Inequality Index0-10.01rank #4
Gini indexindex33.8rank #24
Homicide rateper 100k0.6rank #10
Human Development Index0-10.97rank #2
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.89rank #3
Internet users% pop97.3%rank #3
Life satisfaction0-107rank #10
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.73rank #33
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #1
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #1
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #23
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #18
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people208,287rank #33
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people6rank #2
Youth NEET rate%7.8%rank #21
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-101.3rank #8
Human hazard & exposure0-100.1rank #2
INFORM risk score0-101.8rank #7
Lack of coping capacity0-101.5rank #7
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.6rank #3
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-102.4rank #9
Natural hazard & exposure0-102.3rank #10
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.6rank #7
Vulnerability0-103rank #19
Vulnerable groups0-104.8rank #43
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