SwitzerlandandFrance

1291 · 10 August 843

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Switzerland

1291 — The Federal Charter binds Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden

Dossier →Chronicle →

France

10 August 843 — The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
3
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

CHEFRA
  • GDP
    $1.04 T2025$3.37 T2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $114,7692025$48,9862025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    1.3%20250.8%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    0.2%20250.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    147.2%202567.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

CHEFRA
  • Population
    9.1 m202569 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    84.4 yrs202483.0 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    85.7%202578.8%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.320241.62024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

CHEFRA

Health

CHEFRA
  • Health spending
    11.7%202311.5%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    4.4820223.282022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    3.920244.32024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    96.0%202495.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    96.7%202499.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

CHEFRA

Technology

CHEFRA
  • R&D spending
    3.2%20232.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    6,10820235,3692023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    97.3%202588.7%2024
    Observed 2025 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    12920241172023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    29.6%202423.1%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

CHEFRA
  • Land area
    39,510 km²2023538,950 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    32.4%202332.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    37.8%202352.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    3.720244.02024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    27.7%202116.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

CHEFRA
  • Resource rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%2024100.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

CHEFRA
  • Military burden
    0.7%20242.1%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $6.7 B2024$65 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    20,0002020304,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 13–14 Sep 1515

    Battle of Marignano

    A French army under Francis I decisively defeated the Swiss near Milan, the first great Swiss defeat in two hundred years; the Confederates withdrew from Italy, a retreat traditionally seen as the dawn of Swiss neutrality.

    War & Rupture · from the Switzerland chronicle · Marignano, the Reformation and the Turn to Neutrality · REFS 2 — Neutrality, Switzerland: History

  2. 1798

    French invasion and the Helvetic Republic

    Revolutionary France conquered Switzerland and replaced the old Confederation with the Helvetic Republic, a centralised unitary state that abolished cantonal sovereignty and the privileges of the patrician towns.

    War & Rupture · from the Switzerland chronicle · The Helvetic Republic, Napoleon and the Recognition of Neutrality · REFS 2 — Helvetic Republic, The History of Switzerland

  3. 19 Feb 1803

    Napoleon's Act of Mediation

    After years of factional strife Napoleon imposed the Act of Mediation, restoring a confederal system and creating six new full cantons, including Vaud and Ticino, while keeping Switzerland tied to France.

    Politics & Power · from the Switzerland chronicle · The Helvetic Republic, Napoleon and the Recognition of Neutrality · REFS 1 — Helvetic Republic