2. • Swiss men like to wear tight shorts, white shirts, braces and
William Tell caps, usually with feathers in. They spend most of
their time up in the mountains, singing as they walk.
• They also enjoy yodelling and playing their 12m long Alpine
horns. They are ruddy cheeked, fairly rich, and pretty smug
because they have so much fresh mountain air and because
their trains always run on time.
• They survive on a diet of chocolate and holey-cheese. The
women are mostly blonde, never grow old, like to help milking
the cattle and are usually called Heidi.
• They live in wooden huts on the mountainside, and each room
has at least one cuckoo clock.
• All this is different if the individual happens to be from Zurich.
Zurich dwellers are sharp-suited secretive bankers who make
their living by hoarding Nazi gold and helping out corrupt
politicians and gangsters. The whole country is spotlessly clean
and they are obsessed with the environment.
3. Plan
• Geography
• Politics
• Demography
• Culture
• Economy
• Business
• Work
7. • Resources
Up to 60% of electricity produces a number of hydropower
plants.
Nearly 35% of energy comes from nuclear power plants
8.
9. • Federation democratic and parliamentary (no separation
between the legislative, executive and judicial)
• Switzerland is a federal state, divided into cantons, having the
nature of state-organisms.
10. • Head of state - The Swiss Federal Council
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
• Head of Government - President (Swiss Federal Council)
14. • Switzerland's population is 7.32 million people.
• Age structure: the number of people aged:
- Up to 14 years: 16.97% (634 030 boys, 601 929 girls)
- 15 - 64 years: 67.73% (2.50545 million men, women, 2427408)
- 65 and more: 15.3% (453 366 men, women, 661 091)
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15. rate of population
infant mortality growth: 0.27 %
rate: 4.48
deaths per
1,000 births Birth rate:
10.12/1000
inhabitants
Death rate:
8.77/1000 The average length of age that
inhabitants is expected of the newborn:
- Generally 79.73 years
- Male 76.85 years
- Female 82.76 years
16. The number of employed persons
in total: 3.9 million people
services 69,1
%
the structure of employment agriculture industry
4,5 % 26,3 %
Unemployment rate: 1.9%
17. • Languages:
• There are four language areas: German, spoken by 74%
of the population, French - 20%, Italian - 4% and romansh
- 1%.
• Imigration
• The population of Switzerland is not only Swiss, but also
foreigners, whose number is very large: in 2001 there
were 20.1% of the general public.
18. • Religion
• According to the latest statistics of religious life in
Switzerland, both Christian religions such as Catholicism
and Protestantism dominate the Swiss
19.
20. • Science
• In total, 113 Nobel Prize winners in all fields stand in
relation to Switzerland and the Nobel Peace Prize was
awarded 9 times to organisations residing in Switzerland.
• A very important figure was the philosopher and
psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. In Switzerland, lived and
worked, but partly also in France, Germany and Italy, the
German philosopher and classical philologist Friedrich
Nietzsche.
24. • The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness
Report currently ranks Switzerland's economy as the most
competitive in the world,while ranked by the European
Union as Europe's most innovative country
25. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
GDP per one inhabitant (in CHF) 64 426 69 653 71,9 68 753 69 434
532,1nom.
GDP (in billion CHF) 468,2 508,3 535,3 546,2
379 real.
GDP (growth in%) 3,2 3,1 1,9 -2,0 2,6
Budget deficit (% GDP) 2,5 0,9 1,1 0,8 0,2
Public debt (% GDP) 47,4 51,0 50,0 39,2 38,3
Inflation (in%) 1,1 0,7 0,2 -0,5 0,7
Unemployment (in%) 3,3 2,8 3,0 3,7 3,9
Exports (in billion CHF) 185,2 206,0 206,4 166,1 204,3
Imports (in billion CHF) 177,1 193,0 187,2 147,0 186,7
Foreign direct investment in the
32,9 48,5 46,8 29,3 -
CH (CHF billion)
Swiss direct investment abroad
87,6 61,2 56,4 36,2 -
(CHF billion).
26.
27. Important factors:
Highly qualified and dedicated workforce
the availability of business services at world level (top
banks, financial institutions, insurance, consultancy and
accounting office)
developed communication and industrial infrastructure
Excellent communications with a high saturation of high speed
transmission networks
pro - business attitude of the government and local government
institutions (relevant legislation)
excellent research and development capabilities
an exceptional level of technological know-how
innovative technologies in high growth sectors such as
biotechnology, healthcare, telecommunications and information
technology, microelectronics, environmental protection and
services of high value-added
28. Pro Business government attitude is
revealed:
• the establishment of low taxes on
companies
• Europe's lowest social charges
• Tax the lowest in Europe
• low cost of obtaining capital
• the repeal of taxes for up to 10 years
• guaranteed loans
• subsidizing the training of personnel
• free movement of capital
• the lack of restrictions on money
transfers and dividends.
29.
30. • Jobs for:
workers in the finance and insurance, IT, industry, construction
and health care (nurses, doctors). Also, caregivers of the
elderly, and willing to work in agriculture and tourism. In
winter, lack of manpower in many ski resorts.
Earnings:
There is no statutory minimum wage. Salaries range from 4 - 8
thousand. francs a month. In agriculture, you will earn about
three thousand. francs, waiter salary is 3 - 5 thousand., and
qualified professionals can count on at least 8 - 10 thousand.
francs a month.
Cost of living:
Renting a room costs 600 francs, and two-room apartment
820th Rents are highest in Zurich and Geneva. For the
cheapest lunch in a restaurant you have to pay 20 francs.
31. • Work week in Switzerland is 5 days (Saturday and Sunday are
days off from work - of course except for trade and
services, which often operate on Saturdays until 14). Mostly
work week in Switzerland is 41 hours per week (5
days), though legally permissible is 45 hours. For
comparison, the work week in France is 35 hours, as in
Germany.
It is assumed that the year comprises 261 days minus 105
working Saturdays and Sundays from 365 days, which
generally gives the number of 2140.2 hours a year. If you
subtract 4 weeks vacation, 9 public holidays and the average
number of seven days of absence for other reasons of a
personal nature is the average number of hours per year would
be 1845. This puts Switzerland in third place in the world
outside of Japan (2050) and USA (1904). In this
comparison, Germany has nearly 200 hours per year less.
