Switzerland - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Switzerland was 32.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 100.08 in 1961 and a minimum value of 32.21 in 2019.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, female, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old female dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) University of California, Berkeley, and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. The Human Mortality Database.

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Year Value
1960 98.98
1961 100.08
1962 99.61
1963 97.68
1964 92.99
1965 91.24
1966 90.66
1967 85.96
1968 90.41
1969 89.83
1970 87.00
1971 88.19
1972 83.82
1973 80.17
1974 77.26
1975 77.07
1976 73.82
1977 72.86
1978 74.86
1979 76.04
1980 73.26
1981 70.25
1982 70.90
1983 67.40
1984 67.02
1985 66.30
1986 64.27
1987 62.77
1988 63.84
1989 63.48
1990 62.31
1991 62.39
1992 61.22
1993 60.83
1994 61.03
1995 61.51
1996 57.37
1997 57.52
1998 55.17
1999 53.69
2000 53.92
2001 51.67
2002 51.98
2003 50.15
2004 47.74
2005 46.00
2006 46.74
2007 45.55
2008 42.97
2009 42.17
2010 42.68
2011 40.05
2012 39.90
2013 38.85
2014 36.65
2015 36.48
2016 35.90
2017 34.27
2018 35.15
2019 32.21
2020 32.50

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data from United Nations Population Division's World Populaton Prospects are originally 5-year period data and the presented are linearly interpolated by the World Bank for annual series. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The main sources of mortality data are vital registration systems and direct or indirect estimates based on sample surveys or censuses. A "complete" vital registration system - covering at least 90 percent of vital events in the population - is the best source of age-specific mortality data. Where reliable age-specific mortality data are available, life tables can be constructed from age-specific mortality data, and adult mortality rates can be calculated from life tables.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality