- ISO 3166
CH- Primary locale
de-CH- Currency
- CHF · Swiss Franc
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · DACH
Switzerland
Switzerland has 8.9M people, and 8.6M of them are online. German is the most widely spoken language at 76%, one of 10 languages CLDR lists here. German, Swiss German, and French are official nationally, and Romansh is official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to de-CH.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
8.6M
0%world median 81%100%
97% of 8.9M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$114,769
Higher than 97% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
98%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
10
German 76% · Swiss German 66% · English 45%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 4 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
564
Very lowVery high
High proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
99%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Switzerland
share of 8.9M people
- Germanofficial76%6.7M
- Swiss Germanofficial66%5.8M
- English45%4M
- Frenchofficial39%3.5M
- Italianofficial15%1.3M
- Lombard4%363.3K
- Portuguese3%301.3K
- Romanshregional0.5%44.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 2 more languages sit below the top eight, at 0.4% combined.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against de-CH, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21. April 2026
Short: 21.04.26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
CHF 1'234.56
1,234.56 in CHF · Swiss Franc