Singapore vs Switzerland: Life expectancy

Singapore

83.74 years

in 2023

Switzerland

83.95 years

in 2023

Singapore rank

11th

Switzerland rank

9th

Life expectancy over time

Singapore
Switzerland

How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 83.95 years against 83.74 years in Singapore, a difference of 0.2174 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Switzerland ahead.

Globally, Singapore ranks 11th and Switzerland ranks 9th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Singapore
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.