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  • President:Karin Keller-Sutter
  • Vice President:Guy Parmelin
  • 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.)
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  • Population, persons:8,945,893 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:39,510
  • GDP per capita, US$:99,565 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:884.9 (2023)
  • GINI index:33.7 (2020)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:36

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    • Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (discontinued)
      September 2023
      Source: University of Oxford
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 17 September, 2023
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      University of Oxford baseline measure of variation in governments’ responses is the COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index. This composite measure is a simple additive score of seven indicators measured on an ordinal scale, rescaled to vary from 0 to 100. Please note that this measure is for comparative purposes only, and should not necessarily be interpreted as rating of the appropriateness or effectiveness of a country's response.   Data cited at: Hale, Thomas and Samuel Webster (2020). Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Data use policy: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY standard.