Australia vs Switzerland: Life expectancy

Australia

83.92 years

in 2023

Switzerland

83.95 years

in 2023

Australia rank

10th

Switzerland rank

9th

Life expectancy over time

Australia
Switzerland

How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 83.95 years against 83.92 years in Australia, a difference of 0.0308 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 106 shared years of data; in 1885 it was Australia ahead.

Globally, Australia ranks 10th and Switzerland ranks 9th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Australia
Life expectancy in Switzerland
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.