Australia vs Switzerland: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?

Australia
1.08 years
in 2018
Switzerland
1.09 years
in 2018
Australia rank
9th
Switzerland rank
8th

How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time

  • Australia
  • Switzerland
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How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 1.09 years against 1.08 years in Australia, a difference of 0.01 years.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 98 shared years of data; in 1921 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 9th and Switzerland ranks 8th of 33 countries.

Across the 10 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 9 and Switzerland in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia Switzerland Difference Ahead
1920s 0.1545 years 0.0535 years 0.1009 years Australia
1930s 0.2104 years 0.0959 years 0.1145 years Australia
1940s 0.2266 years 0.139 years 0.0876 years Australia
1950s 0.2963 years 0.2033 years 0.093 years Australia
1960s 0.4235 years 0.2807 years 0.1427 years Australia
1970s 0.6014 years 0.5075 years 0.0939 years Australia
1980s 0.8592 years 0.8078 years 0.0515 years Australia
1990s 1.05 years 1.03 years 0.0204 years Australia
2000s 1.13 years 1.11 years 0.0195 years Australia
2010s 1.07 years 1.13 years 0.0688 years Switzerland

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?, Australia or Switzerland?
Switzerland, at 1.09 years against 1.08 years in Australia as of 2018.
What is the difference in how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? between Australia and Switzerland?
0.01 years, with Switzerland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Switzerland?
98 years are reported by both, from 1921 to 2018.
How do Australia and Switzerland rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
Australia ranks 9th and Switzerland ranks 8th of 33 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Zarulli et al. (2021) – processed by Our World in Data, published as How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Unit
years
Source
Zarulli et al. (2021) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
33 places, 3,442 data points, 1751–2019
Last refreshed

The sex gap in life expectancy arises from sex differences in death rates across the lifespan. This indicator shows the number of years that a given age group's death rates have contributed to the overall sex gap in life expectancy.