Switzerland's life expectancy rose from 78.4 yrs in 1995 to 84.4 yrs in 2024.
Switzerland · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Switzerland's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 68.4 yrs in 2000 to 71.1 yrs in 2021.
Switzerland's infant mortality fell from 5.2 ‰ in 1995 to 3.4 ‰ in 2024.
Switzerland's under-5 mortality rate fell from 6.4 ‰ in 1995 to 3.9 ‰ in 2024.
Switzerland's maternal mortality ratio fell from 12.0 /100k in 1994 to 5.0 /100k in 2023.
Switzerland's ncd mortality fell from 12.6 % in 2000 to 7.5 % in 2021.
Switzerland's suicide mortality rate fell from 20.4 /100k in 2000 to 14.0 /100k in 2021.
Switzerland's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 8.5 /100k in 2000 to 2.2 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.1 pts10th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +7.8 %2nd of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.3 pts72nd of 192
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- Physiciansup +0.9 %15th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesup +0.2 %1st of 129
- Hospital bedsdown −0.7 %15th of 75
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +1.0 pts46th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +1.0 pts48th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts43rd of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisunchanged +0.0 %37th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterdown −0.0 pts45th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.0 pts7th of 141