Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Switzerland

1978

Life expectancy: 75.3

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1978 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Switzerland was 75.3 years in 1978: 78.7 for women and 71.9 for men, a gap of 6.8 years. 57,826 people died; 76.0% of them were 65 or older and 1.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

75.3

Women

78.7

Men

71.9

Life expectancy at 65

16.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

8.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

11.1

Deaths

57,826

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.2

Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

150

Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.

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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	6.91	10.29	78.7	71.9
1-4	0.55	0.71	78.2	71.6
5-9	0.27	0.50	74.4	67.8
10-14	0.20	0.44	69.5	63.0
15-19	0.36	0.99	64.5	58.1
20-24	0.42	1.65	59.6	53.4
25-29	0.48	1.32	54.8	48.8
30-34	0.59	1.25	49.9	44.1
35-39	0.96	1.72	45.0	39.4
40-44	1.41	2.48	40.2	34.7
45-49	2.28	4.18	35.5	30.1
50-54	3.69	7.20	30.9	25.7
55-59	5.36	11.59	26.4	21.5
60-64	8.44	18.32	22.1	17.7
65-69	14.09	30.40	17.9	14.1
70-74	25.00	48.87	14.0	11.0
75-79	44.90	77.98	10.5	8.3
80-84	87.14	125.22	7.5	6.2
85-89	149.80	188.00	5.3	4.5
90-94	247.43	294.88	3.6	3.2
95-99	371.54	419.01	2.6	2.3
100+	525.27	564.56	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Switzerland by year

Mortality in Switzerland, 1978

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