Switzerland
Swiss Confederation
- Region
- Europe · Western Europe
- Capital
- Bern
- Population
- 9,092,436 (2025)
- Government
- federal republic (formally a confederation)
- Currency
- Swiss franc (CHF)
- Official languages
- French, Italian, Romansh, Swiss German
- Spoken languages
- German (or Swiss German) (official) 62.1%, French (official) 22.8%, Italian (official) 8%, English 5.7%, Portuguese 3.5%, Albanian 3.3%, Serbo-Croatian 2.3%, Spanish 2.3%, Romansh (official) 0.5%
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 41,284 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EFTA, IMF, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Austria , France , Italy , Liechtenstein , Germany
Political stability
83 / 100
Economic stability
72 / 100
Population stability
62 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, packaged medicine, vaccines, nitrogen compounds, base metal watches (2023)
- Key imports
- gold, packaged medicine, vaccines, cars, jewelry (2023)
- Natural resources
- hydropower potential, timber, salt
- Luxury goods
- watches, jewelry, fine chocolate
- Primary route
- North Sea hub ports (Rotterdam, Antwerp, Le Havre) to global services
- Secondary route
- Suez Canal corridor to Asia
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.