Switzerland: women outlive men but have 4.2 fewer healthy years
In 2023, life expectancy was 85.8 for women and 82.0 for men; years free of health limitations, 55.4 and 59.6. Women live about 30 years with limitations, men about 22.
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Healthy years are how many years a newborn would live without health limits on everyday activities if this year’s conditions persisted. Women live longer, but spend more years with such limits.
Bar length shows the value from zero. All values are for the same year.
- Life expectancy at birth, women years
85.8 (2023)
- Life expectancy at birth, men years
82 (2023)
- Healthy life years at birth, women years
55.4 (2023)
- Healthy life years at birth, men years
59.6 (2023)
The latest shared published year no later than 2025. No interpolation. Countries are selected editorially; this is not a ranking or a statistical test.
Eurostat calculates healthy years from answers about limits on everyday activities (EU-SILC). They are not years free of every disease; answers are not fully comparable across countries. Life expectancy here is the UN estimate (WPP 2024), so years with limitations are an approximate difference.
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How much of the difference concerns length of life and how much health limitations?