The FSO is Switzerland's national competence centre for official statistics. It produces and publishes statistical information on the status and development of the population, economy, society, education, research, territory and the environment. This information is used for opinion building among the population and for the planning and management of key policy areas. They make an important contribution to a modern, democratic state.

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102 datasets found

  • Bridge tables between the Swiss overall energy statistics (GEST) and the Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA)

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Energy, Environment

    This dataset has no description

    Last updated: September 30, 2025

    • XLS
    • HTML
    • energy
    • territory-and-environment
  • Energy flow accounts of households and the economy, by economic sectors

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Energy, Environment

    This dataset has no description

    Last updated: September 30, 2025

    • XLS
    • HTML
    • territory-and-environment
    • energy
  • Energy flow accounts of households and the economy, by economic activity, aggregated by sections and energy sources, in TJ

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Energy, Environment

    This dataset has no description

    Last updated: September 30, 2025

    • HTML
    • XLS
    • territory-and-environment
    • energy
  • Bridge tables between the inventory of greenhouse gases and pollutants and the air emissions accounts (AEA)

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset has no description

    Last updated: September 30, 2025

    • HTML
    • XLS
    • territory-and-environment
  • Air emissions of households and the economy, by economic player

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset has no description

    Last updated: September 30, 2025

    • HTML
    • XLS
    • territory-and-environment
  • Energy accounts of economy and households

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Energy, Environment

    This dataset presents the annual energy used by the economy and the households in terajoules by energy product, economic sector and activity, and the type of use of households...

    Last updated: September 30, 2025

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • territory-and-environment
    • odin-open-data-inventory
    • energy
  • Settlement area in m2 per inhabitant and job

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset presents the time series of the settlement area per inhabitant and job (full-time equivalent) since the start of the survey in 1979, by major regions, cantons and...

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • territory-and-environment
  • Settlement area in m2 per inhabitant

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset presents the time series of the settlement area per inhabitant since the start of the survey in 1979, by major regions, cantons and statistical cities 2020

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • territory-and-environment
  • Swiss Land Use Statistics: land cover, in hectares

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset presents the periodic status of land cover (NOLC04) since the start of data collection in 1979, by major region, canton, district and commune

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • territory-and-environment
  • Swiss Land Use Statistics: standard nomenclature, in hectares

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset presents the periodic status of the Swiss Land Use Statistics according to the standard nomenclature NOAS04 since the start of data collection in 1979, by major...

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • territory-and-environment
  • Swiss Land Use Statistics: land use, in hectares

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset presents the periodic status of land use (NOLU04) since the start of data collection in 1979, by major region, canton, district and commune

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • territory-and-environment
  • Greenhouse gas footprint – Thousand tons of CO2 equivalent

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Environment

    This dataset presents yearly figures for the greenhouse gas footprint, since 2000. The description of the variables in the CSV file can be found in the annex.

    Last updated: December 8, 2025

    • CSV
    • HTML
    • ODS
    • territory-and-environment
  • Agglomerations: generalized boundaries

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Administrative borders which have a low level of detail are often needed for thematic maps and representations on a small scale. The digital boundaries of Switzerland and the...

    Last updated: December 14, 2017

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • major-region
    • district
    • cartographic-generalisation
    • political-boundary
    • region
    • municipality
    • lake
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • administrative-boundary
    • canton
  • Basic spatial statistical units of the first level (USPAT1)

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The first level of basic statistical spatial units (USPAT1) allows a detailed analysis of the territory. These units are stable over time, meaning that they are not affected by...

    Last updated: June 28, 2024

    • HTML
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • SERVICE
    • confederation
    • boundary-line
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Land use statistics based on the land coverage nomenclature NOLC04

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Land cover data in 27 basic categories, obtained by visual interpretation of sample points from a regular 100-metre grid on three-dimensional, digital aerial photographs. The basic...

    Last updated: October 20, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • HTML
    • land-use
    • land-cover
    • vegetation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • aerial-photograph
  • Land use statistics - Forest mixture ratio 1990

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    In 1996, as part of the project "Forest differentiation using digital satellite imagery", two datasets covering the whole of Switzerland were created on the basis of Landsat TM...

    Last updated: January 1, 1990

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • remote-sensing
    • classification
    • satellite-image
    • digital-image-processing-technique
    • coniferous-forest
    • mixed-woodland
    • forest-ecosystem
    • wood
    • deciduous-forest
    • land-cover
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Land use statistics based on the standard nomenclature NOAS04

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Land use data in 72 basic categories, aggregated into 27 or 17 classes and 4 main categories, obtained by visual interpretation of sample points from a regular 100-metre grid on...

    Last updated: October 20, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • land-use
    • land-cover
    • vegetation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • aerial-photograph
  • Swiss land use statistics

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Swiss Land Use Statistic provides detailed and accurate information on the state and evolution of land use and land cover in Switzerland. On this page you will find the geodata...

    Last updated: August 30, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • CSV
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • land-use
    • land-cover
    • vegetation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • aerial-photograph
  • Municipal boundaries G0: time series since 1850

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The « Municipal boundaries: time series since 1850 » product from the SFSO provides municipal geometries for all municipal states between 01.01.1850 and 31.12.2015 according to the...

    Last updated: February 14, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • API
    • sub-national-boundary
    • lake
    • administrative-boundary
    • municipality
    • national-boundary
    • district
    • canton
    • political-boundary
    • official-geodata
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • CORINE Land Cover Schweiz 1990

    Federal Statistical Office FSO
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Als Beitrag der Schweiz zur europäischen Zusammenarbeit, zur Förderung der Eurokompatibilität der Daten der Schweiz im Umweltbereich, zur Lösung interessanter wissenschaftlicher...

    Last updated: January 1, 1990

    • HTML
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • land-use
    • land-cover