Switzerland

  • President:Alain Berset
  • Vice President:Simonetta Sommaruga
  • Capital city:Bern
  • Languages:German (official) 63.5%, French (official) 22.5%, Italian (official) 8.1%, English 4.4%, Portuguese 3.4%, Albanian 3.1%, Serbo-Croatian 2.5%, Spanish 2.2%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 6.6% note: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national and official languages; totals more than 100% because some respondents indicated more than one main language (2013 est.)
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:8,466,017 (2017)
  • Area, sq km:39,516 (2017)
  • GDP per capita, US$:80,190 (2017)
  • GDP, billion current US$:678.9 (2017)
  • GINI index:32.5 (2014)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:33 (2017)

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