Switzerland - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Switzerland was 81.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.10 in 2019 and a minimum value of 68.29 in 1963.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 68.65
1961 68.84
1962 68.44
1963 68.29
1964 69.19
1965 69.47
1966 69.56
1967 69.70
1968 69.80
1969 69.72
1970 70.03
1971 70.16
1972 70.62
1973 70.98
1974 71.17
1975 71.49
1976 71.60
1977 71.96
1978 71.88
1979 72.31
1980 72.23
1981 72.42
1982 72.79
1983 72.68
1984 73.35
1985 73.48
1986 73.66
1987 73.90
1988 73.89
1989 74.07
1990 73.94
1991 74.10
1992 74.45
1993 74.90
1994 75.15
1995 75.30
1996 75.94
1997 76.26
1998 76.30
1999 76.80
2000 76.90
2001 77.40
2002 77.80
2003 78.00
2004 78.60
2005 78.70
2006 79.10
2007 79.40
2008 79.70
2009 79.80
2010 80.10
2011 80.50
2012 80.60
2013 80.70
2014 81.10
2015 80.80
2016 81.70
2017 81.60
2018 81.90
2019 82.10
2020 81.10

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: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Life expectancy at birth used here is the average number of years a newborn is expected to live if mortality patterns at the time of its birth remain constant in the future. It reflects the overall mortality level of a population, and summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given year. It is calculated in a period life table which provides a snapshot of a population's mortality pattern at a given time. It therefore does not reflect the mortality pattern that a person actually experiences during his/her life, which can be calculated in a cohort life table. High mortality in young age groups significantly lowers the life expectancy at birth. But if a person survives his/her childhood of high mortality, he/she may live much longer. For example, in a population with a life expectancy at birth of 50, there may be few people dying at age 50. The life expectancy at birth may be low due to the high childhood mortality so that once a person survives his/her childhood, he/she may live much longer than 50 years.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality