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Switzerland: Preventive Healthcare


Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births), 2023: 5
Under-five mortality rate (per 1000 live births), 2023: 3.9
Neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births), 2023: 2.8
New HIV infections (per 1000 uninfected population), 2023: <0.1
Tuberculosis incidence (per 100,000 population), 2023: 5.4
Probability of dying from any of CVD, cancer, diabetes, CRD between age 30 and exact age 70 (%), 2021: 7.5%
Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population), 2021: 14.0
Adolescent birth rate (per 1000 women aged 15-19 years), 2015-2024: 1.4
Adolescent birth rate (per 1000 women aged 10-14 years), 2015-2024: 0
Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) immunization coverage among 1-year-olds (%), 2023: 95%
Measles-containing-vaccine second-dose (MCV2) immunization coverage by the locally recommended age (%), 2023: 91%
Pneumococcal conjugate 3rd dose (PCV3) immunization coverage among 1-year olds (%), 2023: 89%
Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization coverage estimates among 15 year-old girls (%), 2023: 70%
Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15-49 years (%), 2023: 16.6%

Source: World health statistics 2025: monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals. Tables of health statistics by country and area, WHO region and globally. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.


Under-Five Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births), 2022: 4
Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births), 2022: 4
Neonatal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births), 2022: 3
Mortality Rate Among Children Aged 5-14 Years (per 1,000 children aged 5), 2022: 1
Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births), 2020: 7
Lifetime Risk of Maternal Death (1 in x), 2020: 1 in 7,776
Immunization for Vaccine Preventable Diseases (%), 2023:
– Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine: 97%
– Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine: 95%
– Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of the polio vaccine: 95%
– Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of the measles-containing vaccine: 95%
– Percentage of children who received the second dose of measles-containing vaccine as per national schedule: 91%
– Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of hepatitis B vaccine: 80%
– Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine: 94%
– Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: 89%
Adolescent Birth Rate (Births Per 1,000 Adolescent Girls and Young Women), 2017-2023:
– Aged 10-14: 0
– Aged 15-19: 1

Notes: Under-five mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 5 years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
Infant mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 1 year of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
Neonatal mortality rate – Probability of dying during the first 28 days of life, expressed per 1,000 live births.
Mortality rate (children aged 5 to 14 years) – Probability of dying at age 5–14 years expressed per 1,000 children aged 5.
Maternal mortality ratio – Number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births during the same time period (modelled estimates).
Lifetime risk of maternal death – Lifetime risk of maternal death takes into account both the probability of becoming pregnant and the probability of dying as a result of that pregnancy, accumulated across a woman’s reproductive years (modelled estimates).
BCG – Percentage of live births who received bacilli Calmette-Guérin (vaccine against tuberculosis).
DTP1 – Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine.
DTP3 – Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine.
Polio3 – Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of the polio vaccine.
MCV1 – Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of the measles-containing vaccine.
MCV2 – Percentage of children who received the second dose of measles-containing vaccine as per national schedule.
HepB3 – Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of hepatitis B vaccine.
Hib3 – Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine.
Rota – Percentage of surviving infants who received the last dose of rotavirus vaccine as recommended.
PCV3 – Percentage of surviving infants who received three doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
Protection at birth (PAB) – Percentage of newborns protected at birth against tetanus with tetanus toxoid.
Adolescent birth rate – Number of births per 1,000 adolescent girls and young women aged 10–14 and
15–19.

Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, The State of the World’s Children 2024: The Future of Childhood in a Changing World – Statistical Compendium. UNICEF, Nov. 20, 2024.


Congestive heart failure hospital admission in adults, age-sex standardized rate per 100,000 population, 2021: 220
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospital admissions in adults, age-sex standardized rate per 100,000 population, 2021: 123

Source: OECD (2023), Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, doi.org/10.1787/7a7afb35-en.


“Expenditure for prevention and health promotion by the state and for the administration (mostly of the mandatory and private health insurance companies) sum up to 6.5% of the Swiss THE [Total Health Expenditure] in 2012. All six distinct sources of revenues contribute to the funding of prevention and health promotion (summing up to a total of 2.1% of THE) and health administration (4.3% of THE).”

Source: De Pietro C, Camenzind P, Sturny I, Crivelli L, Edwards-Garavoglia S, Spranger A, Wittenbecher F, Quentin W. Switzerland: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2015; 17(4):1–288.


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Page last updated October 9, 2025 by Doug McVay, Editor.

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