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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Switzerland was 56.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 185.06 in 1963 and a minimum value of 54.63 in 2019.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male 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 178.52
1961 180.63
1962 184.00
1963 185.06
1964 176.20
1965 167.99
1966 171.01
1967 166.42
1968 167.88
1969 168.34
1970 166.22
1971 161.97
1972 159.21
1973 152.11
1974 150.50
1975 153.67
1976 149.89
1977 149.93
1978 149.65
1979 146.37
1980 145.03
1981 143.99
1982 144.64
1983 140.46
1984 135.57
1985 132.01
1986 129.97
1987 130.39
1988 127.17
1989 127.62
1990 126.48
1991 129.70
1992 126.17
1993 119.11
1994 118.90
1995 117.69
1996 108.87
1997 107.23
1998 103.95
1999 97.25
2000 99.44
2001 94.51
2002 91.80
2003 90.44
2004 87.49
2005 84.24
2006 79.75
2007 78.55
2008 75.47
2009 75.90
2010 71.15
2011 68.35
2012 67.00
2013 66.89
2014 63.34
2015 62.28
2016 58.20
2017 60.21
2018 57.57
2019 54.63
2020 56.76

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