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Switzerland - Life Expectancy 2018

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

83.8 +0.2 from 2017 Global rank: 6th

Switzerland's life expectancy was 83.8 in 2018, increased +0.2 from 83.6 in 2017. This was the 6th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2018▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2018
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	86.1	0.2%
2nd	San Marino	85.1	0.2%
3rd	Hong Kong SAR, China	84.9	0.2%
4th	Andorra	84.2	-0.1%
5th	Japan	84.2	0.1%
6th	Switzerland	83.8	0.2%
7th	Macao SAR, China	83.7	0.2%
8th	Spain	83.4	0.2%
9th	Italy	83.3	0.5%
10th	Singapore	83.3	0.2%
11th	Liechtenstein	83.0	-0.8%
12th	Gibraltar	83.0	0.2%
13th	French Polynesia	83.0	0.3%
14th	Iceland	82.9	0.2%
15th	Israel	82.8	0.3%
16th	Norway	82.8	0.2%
17th	Australia	82.7	0.3%
18th	Qatar	82.7	0.3%
19th	France	82.7	0.1%
20th	Korea	82.6	0.0%
21st	Sweden	82.6	0.2%
22nd	United Arab Emirates	82.4	0.1%
23rd	Luxembourg	82.3	0.2%
24th	Faroe Islands	82.3	0.2%
25th	Malta	82.2	-0.1%
26th	Ireland	82.2	0.1%
27th	Netherlands	81.8	0.1%
28th	Canada	81.8	0.0%
29th	Greece	81.8	0.6%
30th	Finland	81.7	0.1%
31st	New Zealand	81.7	-0.2%
32nd	Austria	81.7	0.1%
33rd	Belgium	81.6	0.1%
34th	Cyprus	81.6	0.0%
35th	Slovenia	81.4	0.4%
36th	Portugal	81.3	-0.1%
37th	United Kingdom	81.3	0.0%
38th	Channel Islands	81.1	0.1%
39th	Puerto Rico (US)	81.1	2.5%
40th	European Union	81.0	0.1%
41st	Bermuda	81.0	0.4%
42nd	Denmark	81.0	-0.2%
43rd	Germany	80.9	-0.1%
44th	Isle of Man	80.6	0.1%
45th	Chile	80.6	-0.1%
46th	Bahrain	80.4	0.0%
47th	Kuwait	80.1	0.2%
48th	Costa Rica	80.1	0.1%
49th	St. Martin (French part)	80.0	1.6%
50th	Oman	79.9	0.1%
51st	Virgin Islands (US)	79.5	0.2%
52nd	Maldives	79.4	0.3%
53rd	Albania	79.2	0.4%
54th	Czechia	79.0	0.1%
55th	Cayman Islands	78.8	0.3%
56th	Saudi Arabia	78.8	0.0%
57th	United States	78.6	0.1%
58th	Panama	78.3	0.5%
59th	Lebanon	78.3	0.1%
60th	Estonia	78.2	0.2%
61st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.9	0.7%
62nd	Croatia	77.9	0.2%
63rd	Montenegro	77.9	1.6%
64th	China	77.7	0.6%
65th	Poland	77.6	-0.2%
66th	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.6	0.1%
67th	New Caledonia	77.6	0.1%
68th	Uruguay	77.5	-0.1%
69th	Northern Mariana Islands	77.5	0.1%
70th	Türkiye	77.5	0.5%
71st	Cuba	77.4	0.2%
72nd	Slovak Republic	77.3	0.1%
73rd	Ecuador	77.2	1.3%
74th	Thailand	77.2	0.3%
75th	Antigua and Barbuda	77.1	0.1%
76th	Kosovo	77.1	0.0%
77th	Argentina	76.8	0.3%
78th	British Virgin Islands	76.7	1.4%
79th	North Macedonia	76.6	0.9%
80th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	76.6	0.3%
81st	Colombia	76.6	0.2%
82nd	Guam	76.6	0.1%
83rd	Curaçao	76.5	0.1%
84th	Jordan	76.5	0.6%
85th	Sri Lanka	76.5	0.3%
86th	Barbados	76.4	0.2%
87th	Hungary	76.1	0.3%
88th	Peru	76.0	0.1%
89th	Serbia	75.9	0.5%
90th	Aruba	75.9	0.3%
91st	Malaysia	75.7	0.3%
92nd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	75.7	0.3%
93rd	Lithuania	75.7	0.3%
94th	Brazil	75.6	0.3%
95th	Armenia	75.6	0.5%
96th	Algeria	75.6	0.2%
97th	West Bank and Gaza	75.4	0.2%
98th	Tunisia	75.4	0.3%
99th	Romania	75.4	0.2%
100th	Brunei Darussalam	75.0	0.1%
101st	Bulgaria	75.0	0.2%
102nd	Grenada	75.0	0.0%
103rd	Cabo Verde	74.8	0.2%
104th	Latvia	74.8	0.2%
105th	Mauritius	74.4	-0.1%
106th	Mexico	74.3	0.1%
107th	Belarus	74.2	0.1%
108th	Viet Nam	74.1	0.1%
109th	Bahamas, The	74.1	0.0%
110th	Georgia	74.0	0.7%
111th	Morocco	73.9	0.5%
112th	Nicaragua	73.9	0.7%
113th	Paraguay	73.6	0.2%
114th	Ukraine	73.6	-0.6%
115th	Dominican Republic	73.6	0.3%
116th	Kazakhstan	73.4	0.5%
117th	Libya	73.2	0.6%
118th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	73.0	0.0%
119th	Azerbaijan	73.0	0.4%
120th	Seychelles	72.8	-2.0%
121st	American Samoa	72.8	0.0%
122nd	Russian Federation	72.7	0.3%
123rd	Trinidad and Tobago	72.7	-0.4%
124th	St. Lucia	72.7	0.2%
125th	Belize	72.3	0.4%
126th	Tonga	72.2	0.1%
127th	Bangladesh	72.1	0.7%
128th	Honduras	72.0	0.3%
129th	Uzbekistan	72.0	0.4%
130th	Greenland	72.0	0.0%
131st	Bhutan	71.7	0.4%
132nd	Jamaica	71.6	-0.4%
133rd	Guatemala	71.5	-0.1%
134th	Suriname	71.5	0.3%
135th	Kyrgyz Republic	71.4	0.3%
136th	El Salvador	71.4	0.5%
137th	Dominica	71.4	4.0%
138th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.3	0.1%
139th	Iraq	71.1	1.9%
140th	Samoa	71.1	0.1%
141st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.0	0.0%
142nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	71.0	0.4%
143rd	Mongolia	70.8	0.4%
144th	Tajikistan	70.7	0.3%
145th	Vanuatu	70.6	0.2%
146th	India	70.4	0.5%
147th	Moldova	70.2	-0.2%
148th	Indonesia	70.1	0.2%
149th	Cambodia	70.0	0.2%
150th	Solomon Islands	69.8	0.2%
151st	Philippines	69.8	-0.3%
152nd	Turkmenistan	69.3	0.1%
153rd	Nepal	69.0	0.4%
154th	Palau	69.0	0.0%
155th	Guyana	68.8	0.4%
156th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	67.7	0.2%
157th	São Tomé and Principe	67.6	0.8%
158th	Lao PDR	67.6	0.4%
159th	Mauritania	67.4	0.5%
160th	Senegal	67.4	0.5%
161st	Syrian Arab Republic	67.4	2.6%
162nd	Gabon	67.0	0.3%
163rd	Eritrea	67.0	0.6%
164th	Fiji	67.0	-0.1%
165th	Pakistan	66.5	0.4%
166th	Botswana	66.4	1.5%
167th	Rwanda	66.4	0.3%
168th	Myanmar	66.2	0.5%
169th	Timor-Leste	66.2	0.5%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.9	0.3%
171st	Yemen, Republic of	65.9	-1.8%
172nd	Tuvalu	65.9	0.3%
173rd	Marshall Islands	65.9	0.3%
174th	Kiribati	65.8	0.0%
175th	Uganda	65.8	0.9%
176th	South Africa	65.7	0.5%
177th	Sudan	65.5	0.5%
178th	Tanzania	65.5	0.8%
179th	Comoros	65.4	0.4%
180th	Papua New Guinea	65.1	0.3%
181st	Congo, Republic of	64.5	0.4%
182nd	Malawi	64.5	0.9%
183rd	Ghana	64.1	0.5%
184th	Djibouti	64.1	0.6%
185th	Haiti	64.1	0.4%
186th	Gambia, The	64.0	0.5%
187th	Madagascar	63.5	0.1%
188th	Kenya	62.8	0.2%
189th	Angola	62.6	0.8%
190th	Namibia	62.6	1.5%
191st	Afghanistan	62.4	0.1%
192nd	Zambia	62.1	0.9%
193rd	Equatorial Guinea	61.9	0.7%
194th	Burundi	61.8	0.8%
195th	Guinea-Bissau	61.7	0.8%
196th	Nauru	61.2	0.2%
197th	Cameroon	61.2	0.6%
198th	Liberia	61.0	0.4%
199th	Zimbabwe	60.9	1.1%
200th	Mozambique	60.8	1.1%
201st	Togo	60.6	0.8%
202nd	Burkina Faso	60.0	0.7%
203rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	59.9	0.7%
204th	Côte d'Ivoire	59.8	0.8%
205th	Niger	59.8	0.4%
206th	Benin	59.7	0.3%
207th	Sierra Leone	59.1	2.2%
208th	Guinea	59.0	0.6%
209th	Mali	58.9	0.5%
210th	Eswatini	58.7	2.0%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	54.8	4.9%
212th	Lesotho	54.6	1.4%
213th	Nigeria	52.7	0.5%
214th	Chad	52.4	1.1%
215th	Central African Republic	52.3	15.6%
216th	South Sudan	51.9	46.8%

FAQ

What was Switzerland's life expectancy in 2018?▾

Switzerland's life expectancy in 2018 was 83.8. This ranked 6th globally.

How did Switzerland's life expectancy change in 2018?▾

Switzerland's life expectancy increased by 0.2% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2018?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2018 at 86.1.

What is the life expectancy of Switzerland in 2018?▾

The life expectancy of Switzerland in 2018 was 83.8. This ranked 6th globally.

How does 2018 compare to 2017 for Switzerland's life expectancy?▾

Switzerland's life expectancy went from 83.6 in 2017 to 83.8 in 2018, a 0.2% increase.

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