Switzerland – CH

EU regions: Switzerland

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	26.4
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	18.1
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	5.5
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2025q1	11
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2025q1	42.4
percentage of workers usually working from home	2024	8.7
percentage of part time workers	2025q1	40.94
percentage of part time workers, men	2025q1	20.9
percentage of part time workers, women	2025q1	62.91
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2025q1	60
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2024	48 331
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2023	17.2
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2023	96.43
gender gap in employment rate	2024	92
gender gap in unemployment rate	2025q1	90.2
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2025q1	8.5
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2025q1	8.1
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2025q1	5.9
NEET	2025q1	8.4
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2024	151
HICP inflation	June 2025	0.2
Employment
employment rate	2025q1	79.8
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	18.1

More on wikipedia wikidata Q39 on OpenStreetMap Switzerland slovensky: CH

Subregions: SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA, Lake Geneva region, Espace Mittelland, Northwestern Switzerland, canton of Zürich, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, canton of Ticino

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024	4.5
youth unemployment rate	2025q1	8
unemployment rate of low educated people	2025q1	8.6
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2025q1	1.4
share of long term unemployed	2024	31.6

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Switzerland

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 96.2 E: 62.3; U: 7.5; I: 26.4	P: 576.9 E: 456.9; U: 26.5; I: 93.5	P: 332.3 E: 283.9; U: 14.3; I: 34.1
Y30-39	P: 141.2 E: 98.0; U: 10.4; I: 32.8	P: 432.1 E: 379.3; U: 14.1; I: 38.7	P: 681.2 E: 627.6; U: 17.6; I: 36.0
Y40-49	P: 169.9 E: 126.3; U: 8.8; I: 34.8	P: 449.1 E: 395.0; U: 11.8; I: 42.3	P: 583.4 E: 528.6; U: 17.8; I: 37.0
Y50-59	P: 206.1 E: 144.8; U: 10.1; I: 51.2	P: 554.3 E: 470.8; U: 11.8; I: 71.7	P: 509.8 E: 459.9; U: 13.9; I: 36.0
Y60-69	P: 183.5 E: 65.2; U: 4.8; I: 113.5	P: 500.2 E: 221.5; U: 6.4; I: 272.3	P: 329.9 E: 186.5; U: 5.3; I: 138.1

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	8 962 258
population density	2023	223
old-age dependency ratio	2024	29.4
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2025q1	3.7
aggregate replacement ratio	2023	0.48
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2023	0.5
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2023	35.5
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2023	19.3

Employment by sectors, Switzerland

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	97.1	2%	B-E	614.8	13%
F	302.5	6%	G-I	915.8	19%
J	179.3	4%	K	251.3	5%
L	58.3	1%	M_N	613.9	13%
NRP	289.8	6%	O-Q	1277.5	26%
R-U	275.3	6%	TOTAL	4875.6	100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state situated in the confluence of western, central, and southern Europe. It is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons, with federal authorities seated in Bern. Switzerland is a landlocked country bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. It is geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km² (15,940 sq mi), and land area of 39,997 km² (15,443 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are located, among them the two global cities and economic centres of Zürich and Geneva.

The establishment of the Old Swiss Confederacy dates to the late medieval period, resulting from a series of military successes against Austria and Burgundy. Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire was formally recognized in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Since the Reformation of the 16^th century, Switzerland has maintained a strong policy of armed neutrality; it has not fought an international war since 1815 and did not join the United Nations until 2002. Nevertheless, it pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. Switzerland is the birthplace of the Red Cross, one of the world's oldest and best known humanitarian organisations, and is home to numerous international organisations, including the second largest UN office.

Other: Switzerland, Cyprus, Czech Republic

Neighbours: Liechtenstein, France, Italy, Germany, Austria

Subregions: SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA, Lake Geneva region, Espace Mittelland, Northwestern Switzerland, canton of Zürich, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, canton of Ticino

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Switzerland – CH, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PCH, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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