Homeschooling, wealth league table and hiking trails

Almost every article published by swissinfo.ch contains a percentage, an age, an amount of money or some other figure. Here’s a round-up of some of the most interesting statistics to appear in the past week’s stories. Monday 450 million Some 1.25 million people use the Swiss rail network every day, with 450 million expected to take a train this year. But some people complain that Swiss trains are becoming pricier, less punctual and more dangerous. swissinfo.ch ran the rule over these grumbles to see if there is any truth behind them. Monday 1,000 More than 1,000 Swiss children are tutored at home rather than in school. But the right to home schooling is not absolute. A court in Basel backed a school’s decision to deny a parent's wish to have their child taught at home. Wednesday 173,438 This is the average net wealth of Swiss citizens (in euros), according to German insurer Allianz, which annually measures the depth of people’s pockets all over the world. Switzerland was ...