SwitzerlandandItaly

1291 · 17 March 1861

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 →

Italy

17 March 1861 — The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

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

CHEITA
  • GDP
    $1.04 T2025$2.55 T2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $114,7692025$43,3092025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    1.3%20250.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    0.2%20251.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    147.2%202562.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

CHEITA
  • Population
    9.1 m202559 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    84.4 yrs202484.0 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    85.7%202569.7%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.320241.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

CHEITA

Health

CHEITA
  • Health spending
    11.7%20238.4%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    4.4820224.192022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    3.920242.72024
    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%202496.8%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

CHEITA
  • Education spending
    4.9%20224.1%2022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    101.2%2024103.6%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    101.4%2024100.7%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    73.5%202475.9%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Adult literacy
    —99.3%2019
    Observed — / 2019 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

CHEITA
  • R&D spending
    3.2%20231.4%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    6,10820232,8552023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    97.3%202589.2%2024
    Observed 2025 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    12920241332024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    29.6%202412.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

CHEITA
  • Land area
    39,510 km²2023295,720 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    32.4%202332.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    37.8%202344.3%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    3.720245.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    27.7%202117.5%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

CHEITA
  • Resource rents
    0.0%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.1%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

CHEITA
  • Military burden
    0.7%20241.6%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $6.7 B2024$38 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    20,0002020338,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event 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