Life expectancy at birth (years), 2021: 83.3 years
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
Probability of dying from any of CVD, cancer, diabetes, CRD between age 30 and exact age 70 (%), 2021: 7.5%
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.
Life Expectancy at Birth, 2021: 84
Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021: 3
Infant Mortality Rate, 2021: 3
Under-5 Mortality Rate, 2021: 4
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2020: 7
Note: “Under-5 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.”
“Maternal mortality ratio – Number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births during the same time period (modelled estimates).”
Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, The State of the World’s Children 2023: For every child, vaccination, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, Florence, April 2023.
Population aged 15 years and over rating their own health as bad or very bad, 2021: 3.9%
Population aged 15 years and over rating their own health as good or very good, by income quintile, 2021
– Highest quintile: 90.2%
– Lowest quintile: 69.6%
– Total: 81.9%
Life expectancy at birth, 2021: 83.9 years
Infant mortality, deaths per 1,000 live births, 2021: 3.1
Maternal mortality rate, deaths per 100,000 live births, 2020: 7.4
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.
Life Expectancy at Birth, 2022: 84.25
Infant Mortality Rate, 2022 (per 1,000 live births): 3.10
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022 (per 1,000 live births): 3.53
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2023). Data Portal, custom data acquired via website. United Nations: New York. Accessed 12 May 2023.
Maternal Deaths Per 100,000 Live Births, 2020: 7
Source: Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020: estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
“Life expectancy at birth in 2013 was 80.7 years for men and 84.9 years for women (see Table 1.4), with average life expectancy of 82.8 being the second highest in the European Region (after Iceland). This was an increase in overall life expectancy of roughly 7 years compared to 1980, when life expectancy was 75.5 years. While female life expectancy has been above 80 years since 1990, male life expectancy has only surpassed 80 years since 2010.
“The disability-adjusted life expectancy (DALE) in 2012 was 70.5 years for women and 73.8 for men (see Table 1.5). Similarly, in 2012, healthy life year (HLY) expectancy, which is the number of years lived without any long-term activity limitations, was more than a year higher for men (68.6) than for women (67.6), meaning that women on average experience longer periods of sickness during their overall longer lifetime. Both for total life expectancy and for HLY Swiss averages are far above those of the EU28, indicating excellent population health.”
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.
“Population health indicators are very good in Switzerland. Patients are highly satisfied with the health system, perceive quality to be good or very good, and there are virtually no waiting times. Avoidable hospital admissions are relatively low and OECD quality indicators confirm that health care quality is high – although not exceptional.”
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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