Sweden vs Switzerland: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Sweden
1.07 years
in 2019
Switzerland
1.09 years
in 2018
Sweden rank
10th
Switzerland rank
8th
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time
- Sweden
- Switzerland
How they compare
Switzerland currently reports 1.09 years against 1.07 years in Sweden, a difference of 0.02 years.
The two have swapped places 19 times across 143 shared years of data; in 1876 it was Sweden ahead.
Sweden ranks 10th and Switzerland ranks 8th of 33 countries.
Across the 15 decades both report, Sweden averaged higher in 8 and Switzerland in 7.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Sweden | Switzerland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1870s | 0.0995 years | 0.0043 years | 0.0952 years | Sweden |
| 1880s | 0.0979 years | 0.0061 years | 0.0919 years | Sweden |
| 1890s | 0.0912 years | 0.0122 years | 0.079 years | Sweden |
| 1900s | 0.0887 years | 0.022 years | 0.0667 years | Sweden |
| 1910s | 0.0833 years | 0.0417 years | 0.0416 years | Sweden |
| 1920s | 0.079 years | 0.052 years | 0.0269 years | Sweden |
| 1930s | 0.0691 years | 0.0959 years | 0.0268 years | Switzerland |
| 1940s | 0.0889 years | 0.139 years | 0.0501 years | Switzerland |
| 1950s | 0.1405 years | 0.2033 years | 0.0628 years | Switzerland |
| 1960s | 0.2704 years | 0.2807 years | 0.0103 years | Switzerland |
| 1970s | 0.5666 years | 0.5075 years | 0.0591 years | Sweden |
| 1980s | 0.824 years | 0.8078 years | 0.0162 years | Sweden |
| 1990s | 1 years | 1.03 years | 0.0296 years | Switzerland |
| 2000s | 1.05 years | 1.11 years | 0.0636 years | Switzerland |
| 2010s | 1.04 years | 1.13 years | 0.0922 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?, Sweden or Switzerland?
- Switzerland, at 1.09 years against 1.07 years in Sweden 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 Sweden and Switzerland?
- 0.02 years, with Switzerland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Sweden and Switzerland?
- 143 years are reported by both, from 1876 to 2018.
- How do Sweden and Switzerland rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
- Sweden ranks 10th 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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About this data
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.