It is a top-ten exporter of gold (#1, 18% of world export value in 2024), platinum (#7, 3.8% of world export value in 2024), silver (#7, 5.7% of world export value in 2024), palladium (#10, 1.8% of world export value in 2024).
Share of world production, 2024. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.
What does Switzerland produce?
Switzerland is not in the top ten producers of any commodity tracked here.
What does Switzerland export?
Switzerland's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Switzerland's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Switzerland dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.
Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Switzerland's own $110.1 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Gold alone is 97% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Switzerland compares with other countries.
Commodities where Switzerland is a top-ten exporter
Gold: #1, 19% of world imports, $112.2 billion (2024)
Palladium: #3, 12% of world imports, $1.6 billion (2024)
Vanilla: #6, 2.2% of world imports, $10.2 million (2024)
Hazelnuts: #7, 3.1% of world imports, $69.9 million (2024)
Platinum: #8, 5.3% of world imports, $772.3 million (2024)
Silver: #8, 3.7% of world imports, $1.2 billion (2024)
Coffee: #10, 2.6% of world imports, $875.5 million (2024)
Oats: #10, 1.6% of world imports, $17.9 million (2024)
Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.
Switzerland commodity by commodity
One page for each commodity where Switzerland is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.
What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Switzerland, computed from the same data as this page.
What Switzerland uses
Switzerland had about 8.9 million people and a food supply of 3,402 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:
Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Switzerland, 2023
FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.
Who supplies Switzerland
Single-supplier markets. Switzerland buys half or more of its imports from one country in 1 of 10 import markets of $250 million or more, among them natural gas from France (61%, $1.5 billion). Import dependency.
A new largest supplier. gold: United States (21% in 2022) to United Arab Emirates (11% in 2024). Supplier shifts.
Downloads and citation
This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Switzerland produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/CHE/ (CC BY 4.0).
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