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Sources: Federal Statistical Office (FSO: prices, rents, labour market, wages, population, crime, poverty; GDP before 1995; the communes' population and jobs), SECO (quarterly GDP via Eurostat), Eurostat (city statistics), Swiss National Bank (exchange rates; house prices via the BIS), IMF (government debt), GISCO, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; economy ministers checked against the Federal Chancellery's and the Federal Assembly's lists, city presidents against the cities' records. CreditsPrivacy

Guy Parmelin (Swiss People's Party) has been Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research since 1 Jan 2019. Since Guy Parmelin took office in January 2019, real GDP has risen 1.8% a year. Switzerland ranks 17th of 39 national leaders on the rise in freedom of expression; on the rise in control of corruption it is 39th. Over Johann Schneider-Ammann's tenure, 2010 to 2019, real GDP rose 1.9% a year. On the World Bank's control of corruption Switzerland has moved −6.3 points since day zero, to 88.1 of 100 in 2025.

The economy minister and mayors of Switzerland

The economy minister

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