Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail in Switzerland
Switzerland: Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail was 541.86 million LCU in 2015. ▼ Falling
Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail in Switzerland, 2005–2015
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in million LCU.
Analysis
Switzerland recorded 541.86 million LCU for food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in 2015. That is the lowest value across all 11 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 22.2% on the previous year and down 14.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in Switzerland peaked at 780.12 million LCU in 2008 and was at its lowest, 541.86 million LCU, in 2015.
Switzerland ranks 39th of 63 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 11 years of available data.
Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail in Switzerland, year by year
| Year | million LCU | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 636.91 million LCU | — |
| 2006 | 669.84 million LCU | +5.2% |
| 2007 | 655.82 million LCU | -2.1% |
| 2008 | 780.12 million LCU | +19.0% |
| 2009 | 762.76 million LCU | -2.2% |
| 2010 | 684.31 million LCU | -10.3% |
| 2011 | 744.63 million LCU | +8.8% |
| 2012 | 560.39 million LCU | -24.7% |
| 2013 | 557.13 million LCU | -0.6% |
| 2014 | 696.3 million LCU | +25.0% |
| 2015 | 541.86 million LCU | -22.2% |
Switzerland compared with similar countries
- Switzerland's 541.86 million LCU is above the median for high income countries, which is 468.29 million LCU, 1.2× the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Switzerland's 541.86 million LCU is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 448.25 million LCU, 1.2× the median. (29 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 701.09 million LCU | 636.91 million LCU | 780.12 million LCU | 5 |
| 2010s | 630.77 million LCU | 541.86 million LCU | 744.63 million LCU | 6 |
Countries ranked near Switzerland
More agriculture & rural data for Switzerland
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0064 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 739.83 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.8806 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1427 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in Switzerland?
- Food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in Switzerland was 541.86 million LCU in 2015, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail recorded in Switzerland?
- The highest recorded value was 780.12 million LCU in 2008.
- What is the lowest food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail recorded in Switzerland?
- The lowest recorded value was 541.86 million LCU in 2015.
- How does Switzerland rank for food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail?
- Switzerland ranks 39th out of 63 countries with data for 2015.
- Is food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail rising or falling in Switzerland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Switzerland data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail trade — Labour — Value Local Currency. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
This domain contains data on three food value measures, namely: (1) Food At Home (FAH); (2) Food and Tobacco at Home (FTAH); (3) Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH), disaggregated by four primary factors (Operating Surplus, Labor, Taxes, Imports) and by five food value chain industries (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Manufacture of food, beverages and tobacco products; Transportation and storage; Wholesale and retail trade; Accommodation and food service activities). The three food value measures differ for the bundle of goods and services they account for. In particular, the FAH refers to domestic expenditures of personal consumption for food consumed at home, at purchaser prices. The FTAH measure is similar in its target, but it refers to a broader set of economic goods, inclusive of tobacco, as food and tobacco expenditures are not always separable in the original data. On the other side, the FAAFH refers to domestic expenditures of personal consumption for food consumed away from home (e.g. in restaurants), at purchaser prices, and it also includes expenditures for accommodation in all the cases where the two types of expenditures were not separable in the original data. The values of industry decomposition measure the food production value-added distribution across different industries and factors involved in the agri-food value chain. All these estimates are based on Leontief Input Ouput modeling and Industry reduction method. The Food Value Chain domain aims to supply informaiton relevant for the SDG 12 - sustainable consumption and production patterns, SDG 2 - zero hunger and SDG 1 - no poverty, that constitue guiding SDGs in the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031 and its better production pillar. More in general they may inform national, regional and global food policy, including measures in the World Food Summit framework. Data are collected from national Supply and Use Tables (SUTs) and Industry by Industry Input Output tables (IOTs), via OECD database or NSOs. All input data are in line with the System of National Accounts (SNA) and main international classifications and standards related to environmental-economic accounting (respectively the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, SEEA AFF, and the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, ISIC).