Mortality in Switzerland, 2023

Switzerland
2023
Life expectancy: 84.0
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Switzerland was 84.0 years in 2023: 85.8 for women and 82.0 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 73,788 people died; 87.9% of them were 65 or older and 0.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 85-89. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
84.0
Women
85.8
Men
82.0
Life expectancy at 65
21.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
3.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
3.6
Deaths
73,788
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
53
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
30
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2023's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
03.063.3085.882.0
1-40.080.1485.181.3
5-90.070.0881.177.3
10-140.070.0776.272.4
15-190.110.2671.267.4
20-240.160.4466.262.5
25-290.180.4461.357.6
30-340.240.4656.352.7
35-390.290.5351.447.8
40-440.510.8646.543.0
45-490.861.3141.638.1
50-541.392.4136.733.4
55-592.454.1832.028.7
60-644.017.0127.324.3
65-696.4911.6422.820.1
70-7411.4219.1218.516.1
75-7919.4030.7314.412.5
80-8437.8456.2110.69.1
85-8981.95113.417.36.2
90-94168.45206.824.74.1
95-99310.37350.713.02.7
100+508.52539.902.01.9