Switzerland vs Western Africa: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ over time
- Switzerland
- Western Africa
How they compare
Switzerland currently reports 936,564 million USD against 535,797 million USD in Western Africa, a difference of 400,767 million USD.
That makes Switzerland's figure about 1.7 times Western Africa's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Western Africa ahead.
Switzerland ranks 24th and Western Africa ranks 27th of 236 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Switzerland averaged higher in 4 and Western Africa in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Switzerland | Western Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 62,286 million USD | 113,299 million USD | 51,013 million USD | Western Africa |
| 1980s | 146,688 million USD | 203,745 million USD | 57,057 million USD | Western Africa |
| 1990s | 297,728 million USD | 112,519 million USD | 185,208 million USD | Switzerland |
| 2000s | 411,322 million USD | 269,390 million USD | 141,933 million USD | Switzerland |
| 2010s | 695,813 million USD | 656,972 million USD | 38,841 million USD | Switzerland |
| 2020s | 843,342 million USD | 689,233 million USD | 154,109 million USD | Switzerland |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$, Switzerland or Western Africa?
- Switzerland, at 936,564 million USD against 535,797 million USD in Western Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$ between Switzerland and Western Africa?
- 400,767 million USD, with Switzerland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Switzerland and Western Africa?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Switzerland and Western Africa rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$?
- Switzerland ranks 24th and Western Africa ranks 27th of 236 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).