Life Expectancy in South Africa vs Switzerland (1950-2025)

Remaining life expectancy by current age

Life expectancy is often mistaken for the average lifespan of an adult. An adult has already survived early-age mortality causes and is expected to have a longer lifespan than calculated from birth.

The life expectancy from current ages in South Africa vs Switzerland: 70.5 years vs 84.8 at 30, 80.7 vs 86.8 at 65, 88.7 vs 90 at 80 — significantly higher than the 66.5 vs 84.2 years calculated at birth.

The chart and table below account for the remaining lifespan and display total life expectancy by age and gender in South Africa and Switzerland.

Table

Current age, years	Total life expectancy, years
	South Africa			Switzerland
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
0	66.5	63	70	84.2	82.3	86.1
1	68	64.6	71.4	84.5	82.6	86.3
2	68.2	64.8	71.6	84.5	82.6	86.3
3	68.4	65	71.8	84.5	82.6	86.3
4	68.5	65.1	71.8	84.5	82.6	86.3
5	68.6	65.1	71.9	84.5	82.7	86.3
6	68.6	65.2	71.9	84.5	82.7	86.4
7	68.6	65.2	72	84.5	82.7	86.4
8	68.7	65.3	72	84.5	82.7	86.4
9	68.7	65.3	72	84.5	82.7	86.4
10	68.7	65.3	72	84.5	82.7	86.4
11	68.7	65.3	72	84.5	82.7	86.4
12	68.8	65.4	72.1	84.6	82.7	86.4
13	68.8	65.4	72.1	84.6	82.7	86.4
14	68.8	65.4	72.1	84.6	82.7	86.4
15	68.9	65.5	72.2	84.6	82.7	86.4
16	68.9	65.5	72.2	84.6	82.7	86.4
17	69	65.6	72.3	84.6	82.7	86.4
18	69	65.7	72.3	84.6	82.7	86.4
19	69.1	65.8	72.4	84.6	82.7	86.4
20	69.2	65.8	72.4	84.6	82.8	86.4
21	69.3	66	72.5	84.6	82.8	86.4
22	69.4	66.1	72.6	84.7	82.8	86.4
23	69.5	66.2	72.7	84.7	82.8	86.4
24	69.6	66.3	72.8	84.7	82.9	86.5
25	69.7	66.5	72.9	84.7	82.9	86.5
26	69.9	66.7	73	84.7	82.9	86.5
27	70	66.8	73.1	84.7	82.9	86.5
28	70.2	67	73.2	84.8	83	86.5
29	70.3	67.2	73.4	84.8	83	86.5
30	70.5	67.4	73.5	84.8	83	86.5
31	70.7	67.6	73.7	84.8	83	86.5
32	70.9	67.8	73.8	84.8	83	86.5
33	71.1	68	74	84.8	83.1	86.5
34	71.3	68.2	74.2	84.9	83.1	86.6
35	71.5	68.4	74.4	84.9	83.1	86.6
36	71.7	68.6	74.5	84.9	83.1	86.6
37	71.9	68.9	74.7	84.9	83.1	86.6
38	72.1	69.1	74.9	84.9	83.2	86.6
39	72.3	69.4	75.1	85	83.2	86.6
40	72.6	69.6	75.3	85	83.2	86.7
41	72.8	69.9	75.6	85	83.3	86.7
42	73.1	70.1	75.8	85	83.3	86.7
43	73.3	70.4	76	85.1	83.3	86.7
44	73.6	70.7	76.2	85.1	83.4	86.7
45	73.8	70.9	76.4	85.1	83.4	86.8
46	74.1	71.2	76.7	85.2	83.5	86.8
47	74.4	71.5	76.9	85.2	83.5	86.8
48	74.6	71.9	77.1	85.2	83.5	86.9
49	74.9	72.2	77.4	85.3	83.6	86.9
50	75.2	72.5	77.6	85.3	83.7	86.9
51	75.5	72.9	77.9	85.4	83.7	87
52	75.8	73.2	78.1	85.5	83.8	87
53	76.2	73.6	78.3	85.5	83.9	87.1
54	76.5	73.9	78.6	85.6	84	87.1
55	76.8	74.3	78.9	85.7	84	87.2
56	77.2	74.7	79.2	85.7	84.1	87.3
57	77.5	75.1	79.4	85.8	84.2	87.3
58	77.9	75.6	79.7	85.9	84.3	87.4
59	78.2	76	80	86	84.5	87.5
60	78.6	76.5	80.3	86.1	84.6	87.6
61	79	76.9	80.7	86.2	84.7	87.6
62	79.4	77.4	81	86.4	84.9	87.7
63	79.8	77.9	81.3	86.5	85	87.8
64	80.2	78.4	81.7	86.6	85.2	87.9
65	80.7	78.9	82	86.8	85.3	88
66	81.1	79.4	82.4	86.9	85.5	88.2
67	81.6	79.9	82.8	87.1	85.7	88.3
68	82.1	80.5	83.2	87.2	85.9	88.4
69	82.6	81.1	83.6	87.4	86.1	88.6
70	83.1	81.6	84	87.6	86.3	88.7
71	83.6	82.2	84.5	87.8	86.6	88.8
72	84.1	82.8	84.9	88	86.8	89
73	84.6	83.4	85.4	88.2	87.1	89.2
74	85.2	84	85.8	88.4	87.3	89.4
75	85.7	84.7	86.3	88.7	87.6	89.5
76	86.3	85.3	86.9	88.9	87.9	89.7
77	86.9	86	87.4	89.2	88.2	90
78	87.5	86.7	87.9	89.4	88.5	90.2
79	88.1	87.3	88.5	89.7	88.8	90.4
80	88.7	88	89.1	90	89.1	90.7
81	89.4	88.7	89.7	90.3	89.5	90.9
82	90	89.4	90.2	90.7	89.9	91.2
83	90.6	90.1	90.8	91.1	90.3	91.6
84	91.2	90.8	91.4	91.5	90.8	91.9
85	91.9	91.5	92.1	91.9	91.3	92.3
86	92.6	92.2	92.7	92.4	91.8	92.7
87	93.2	92.9	93.4	92.9	92.3	93.2
88	93.9	93.7	94.1	93.4	92.9	93.7
89	94.7	94.4	94.7	93.9	93.5	94.2
90	95.4	95.2	95.5	94.5	94.1	94.8
91	96.1	96	96.2	95.2	94.8	95.3
92	96.9	96.7	96.9	95.8	95.5	96
93	97.6	97.5	97.6	96.5	96.2	96.6
94	98.4	98.3	98.4	97.2	97	97.3
95	99.2	99.1	99.2	97.9	97.7	98
96	100	99.9	100	98.7	98.5	98.8
97	100.8	100.7	100.8	99.5	99.3	99.5
98	101.6	101.5	101.7	100.3	100.2	100.3
99	102.5	102.3	102.6	101.1	101	101.2
100	103.4	103.1	103.5	102	101.9	102

Odds of living to age in South Africa vs Switzerland

The chart below shows the odds of living to all ages starting from birth. Of the newborn cohort, 68.4% in South Africa and 95.4% in Switzerland are expected to survive till at least 60 years old, 51.3% and 89% will live to 70 years or older, 30% and 74% to 80+ years, and 11.2% and 36.5% will live past 90 years old.

For longevity rates starting from an age other than 0, use the probability of survival to an age calculator provided above.

Table

Age	Survival probability
	South Africa			Switzerland
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
1	97.8%	97.5%	98%	99.7%	99.7%	99.7%
2	97.4%	97.1%	97.7%	99.7%	99.6%	99.7%
3	97.2%	96.9%	97.5%	99.7%	99.6%	99.7%
4	97%	96.7%	97.4%	99.7%	99.6%	99.7%
5	96.9%	96.6%	97.3%	99.6%	99.6%	99.7%
6	96.9%	96.5%	97.2%	99.6%	99.6%	99.7%
7	96.8%	96.5%	97.2%	99.6%	99.6%	99.7%
8	96.8%	96.4%	97.2%	99.6%	99.6%	99.7%
9	96.7%	96.4%	97.1%	99.6%	99.6%	99.7%
10	96.7%	96.3%	97.1%	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%
11	96.7%	96.3%	97.1%	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%
12	96.6%	96.2%	97%	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%
13	96.6%	96.2%	97%	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%
14	96.5%	96.1%	96.9%	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%
15	96.4%	96%	96.9%	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%
16	96.4%	95.9%	96.8%	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%
17	96.3%	95.8%	96.7%	99.6%	99.5%	99.6%
18	96.1%	95.6%	96.6%	99.5%	99.5%	99.6%
19	96%	95.5%	96.5%	99.5%	99.5%	99.6%
20	95.8%	95.3%	96.4%	99.5%	99.4%	99.6%
21	95.6%	95.1%	96.3%	99.5%	99.4%	99.6%
22	95.4%	94.8%	96.1%	99.5%	99.4%	99.5%
23	95.2%	94.5%	95.9%	99.4%	99.3%	99.5%
24	95%	94.2%	95.8%	99.4%	99.3%	99.5%
25	94.7%	93.9%	95.6%	99.4%	99.3%	99.5%
26	94.4%	93.5%	95.3%	99.3%	99.2%	99.5%
27	94.1%	93.1%	95.1%	99.3%	99.2%	99.5%
28	93.7%	92.7%	94.8%	99.3%	99.1%	99.5%
29	93.4%	92.3%	94.5%	99.3%	99.1%	99.4%
30	93%	91.8%	94.2%	99.2%	99.1%	99.4%
31	92.6%	91.3%	93.9%	99.2%	99%	99.4%
32	92.1%	90.8%	93.5%	99.2%	99%	99.4%
33	91.7%	90.3%	93.1%	99.1%	98.9%	99.4%
34	91.2%	89.7%	92.7%	99.1%	98.9%	99.3%
35	90.7%	89.1%	92.3%	99.1%	98.9%	99.3%
36	90.2%	88.5%	91.9%	99%	98.8%	99.3%
37	89.6%	87.9%	91.4%	99%	98.8%	99.2%
38	89.1%	87.2%	90.9%	99%	98.7%	99.2%
39	88.5%	86.5%	90.4%	98.9%	98.6%	99.2%
40	87.9%	85.8%	89.9%	98.9%	98.6%	99.1%
41	87.2%	85.1%	89.4%	98.8%	98.5%	99.1%
42	86.5%	84.3%	88.8%	98.7%	98.4%	99.1%
43	85.8%	83.5%	88.2%	98.7%	98.3%	99%
44	85.1%	82.6%	87.6%	98.6%	98.2%	99%
45	84.3%	81.8%	87%	98.5%	98.1%	98.9%
46	83.5%	80.8%	86.3%	98.4%	98%	98.8%
47	82.7%	79.8%	85.7%	98.3%	97.9%	98.7%
48	81.9%	78.8%	85%	98.2%	97.8%	98.7%
49	81%	77.7%	84.3%	98.1%	97.6%	98.6%
50	80.1%	76.6%	83.6%	97.9%	97.4%	98.4%
51	79.1%	75.4%	82.9%	97.8%	97.3%	98.3%
52	78.1%	74.2%	82.1%	97.6%	97%	98.2%
53	77.1%	72.9%	81.3%	97.4%	96.8%	98.1%
54	76%	71.6%	80.5%	97.2%	96.6%	97.9%
55	74.8%	70.2%	79.6%	97%	96.3%	97.7%
56	73.6%	68.7%	78.7%	96.7%	95.9%	97.5%
57	72.4%	67.2%	77.7%	96.4%	95.6%	97.3%
58	71.1%	65.6%	76.6%	96.1%	95.2%	97.1%
59	69.8%	64%	75.6%	95.8%	94.8%	96.8%
60	68.4%	62.3%	74.4%	95.4%	94.3%	96.5%
61	66.9%	60.6%	73.3%	95%	93.8%	96.2%
62	65.5%	58.8%	72.1%	94.6%	93.3%	95.9%
63	63.9%	57%	70.8%	94.1%	92.6%	95.5%
64	62.3%	55.1%	69.5%	93.5%	91.9%	95.1%
65	60.6%	53.1%	68%	92.9%	91.2%	94.7%
66	58.9%	51.1%	66.5%	92.2%	90.3%	94.2%
67	57.1%	49%	64.9%	91.5%	89.4%	93.6%
68	55.2%	46.9%	63.3%	90.7%	88.5%	93%
69	53.2%	44.8%	61.5%	89.9%	87.4%	92.4%
70	51.3%	42.7%	59.7%	89%	86.3%	91.8%
71	49.3%	40.6%	57.9%	88%	85.1%	91%
72	47.3%	38.4%	55.9%	86.9%	83.8%	90.2%
73	45.2%	36.3%	53.9%	85.8%	82.3%	89.3%
74	43.1%	34.2%	51.8%	84.5%	80.8%	88.3%
75	40.9%	32.1%	49.7%	83.1%	79.1%	87.1%
76	38.7%	29.9%	47.4%	81.6%	77.3%	85.9%
77	36.5%	27.8%	45.1%	80%	75.3%	84.6%
78	34.3%	25.7%	42.7%	78.2%	73.2%	83.1%
79	32.1%	23.7%	40.3%	76.2%	70.9%	81.4%
80	30%	21.8%	37.9%	74%	68.3%	79.6%
81	27.9%	20%	35.5%	71.5%	65.5%	77.5%
82	25.8%	18.3%	33.1%	68.8%	62.4%	75.1%
83	23.8%	16.7%	30.8%	65.8%	59.1%	72.4%
84	21.9%	15.1%	28.4%	62.4%	55.5%	69.3%
85	20%	13.6%	26.1%	58.8%	51.5%	65.9%
86	18.1%	12.1%	23.7%	54.8%	47.4%	62.1%
87	16.2%	10.7%	21.5%	50.6%	42.9%	57.9%
88	14.5%	9.42%	19.2%	46%	38.4%	53.3%
89	12.8%	8.21%	17.1%	41.3%	33.8%	48.4%
90	11.2%	7.1%	15.1%	36.5%	29.1%	43.3%
91	9.76%	6.1%	13.2%	31.6%	24.6%	38.1%
92	8.41%	5.2%	11.4%	26.8%	20.3%	32.8%
93	7.16%	4.38%	9.73%	22.2%	16.3%	27.6%
94	6.02%	3.66%	8.21%	17.9%	12.8%	22.6%
95	5%	3.03%	6.83%	14.1%	9.74%	18%
96	4.1%	2.47%	5.6%	10.7%	7.2%	13.9%
97	3.32%	2%	4.54%	7.91%	5.13%	10.3%
98	2.65%	1.6%	3.62%	5.62%	3.51%	7.43%
99	2.08%	1.26%	2.84%	3.84%	2.32%	5.13%
100	1.61%	0.99%	2.19%	2.52%	1.47%	3.4%

Odds of dying by age chart

Mortality rates vary throughout a lifetime. The annual chance of dying is 2.24% in the birth year in South Africa and 0.31% in Switzerland, 0.45% vs 0.03% at age 30, 2.1% vs 0.44% at 60, and 6.98% vs 3.32% at 80.

Below is a graph displaying the probabilities of dying in South Africa compared to Switzerland at any given age.

Table

Age	Probability of dying
	South Africa			Switzerland
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
0	2.24%	2.49%	1.98%	0.31%	0.33%	0.29%
1	0.36%	0.39%	0.32%	0.02%	0.02%	0.02%
2	0.23%	0.26%	0.2%	0.008%	0.008%	0.007%
3	0.15%	0.17%	0.13%	0.007%	0.008%	0.005%
4	0.1%	0.12%	0.08%	0.006%	0.008%	0.005%
5	0.07%	0.08%	0.06%	0.005%	0.006%	0.004%
6	0.05%	0.06%	0.04%	0.005%	0.005%	0.005%
7	0.04%	0.05%	0.04%	0.005%	0.005%	0.005%
8	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%	0.005%	0.005%	0.005%
9	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%	0.005%	0.005%	0.005%
10	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%	0.005%	0.004%	0.005%
11	0.05%	0.05%	0.04%	0.005%	0.005%	0.006%
12	0.05%	0.06%	0.04%	0.006%	0.006%	0.006%
13	0.06%	0.07%	0.05%	0.008%	0.008%	0.007%
14	0.07%	0.09%	0.06%	0.009%	0.01%	0.008%
15	0.09%	0.11%	0.07%	0.01%	0.01%	0.008%
16	0.11%	0.13%	0.09%	0.01%	0.02%	0.008%
17	0.13%	0.15%	0.1%	0.02%	0.02%	0.01%
18	0.15%	0.18%	0.12%	0.02%	0.03%	0.01%
19	0.17%	0.21%	0.13%	0.02%	0.04%	0.01%
20	0.19%	0.24%	0.14%	0.02%	0.04%	0.009%
21	0.21%	0.27%	0.15%	0.03%	0.04%	0.009%
22	0.23%	0.3%	0.17%	0.03%	0.04%	0.01%
23	0.26%	0.33%	0.19%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
24	0.28%	0.36%	0.21%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
25	0.31%	0.39%	0.23%	0.03%	0.04%	0.01%
26	0.34%	0.42%	0.26%	0.03%	0.04%	0.01%
27	0.37%	0.45%	0.29%	0.03%	0.04%	0.01%
28	0.39%	0.48%	0.31%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
29	0.42%	0.5%	0.34%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
30	0.45%	0.53%	0.36%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
31	0.47%	0.56%	0.39%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
32	0.5%	0.59%	0.41%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
33	0.52%	0.62%	0.43%	0.03%	0.05%	0.02%
34	0.55%	0.65%	0.45%	0.04%	0.05%	0.02%
35	0.58%	0.68%	0.47%	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%
36	0.6%	0.72%	0.5%	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%
37	0.64%	0.75%	0.52%	0.04%	0.06%	0.03%
38	0.67%	0.79%	0.55%	0.05%	0.06%	0.03%
39	0.7%	0.83%	0.58%	0.05%	0.07%	0.04%
40	0.74%	0.87%	0.61%	0.05%	0.07%	0.04%
41	0.77%	0.91%	0.63%	0.06%	0.08%	0.04%
42	0.81%	0.96%	0.66%	0.07%	0.09%	0.05%
43	0.85%	1.02%	0.69%	0.08%	0.1%	0.06%
44	0.89%	1.08%	0.71%	0.09%	0.11%	0.07%
45	0.94%	1.14%	0.74%	0.1%	0.12%	0.07%
46	0.99%	1.21%	0.76%	0.1%	0.13%	0.08%
47	1.03%	1.29%	0.79%	0.11%	0.14%	0.09%
48	1.08%	1.36%	0.81%	0.13%	0.15%	0.1%
49	1.14%	1.45%	0.84%	0.14%	0.18%	0.11%
50	1.2%	1.53%	0.88%	0.16%	0.2%	0.12%
51	1.26%	1.63%	0.92%	0.17%	0.22%	0.13%
52	1.33%	1.73%	0.97%	0.19%	0.24%	0.14%
53	1.41%	1.84%	1.03%	0.21%	0.27%	0.16%
54	1.5%	1.96%	1.1%	0.24%	0.3%	0.19%
55	1.59%	2.08%	1.17%	0.27%	0.34%	0.2%
56	1.69%	2.21%	1.25%	0.29%	0.37%	0.21%
57	1.79%	2.35%	1.33%	0.32%	0.39%	0.24%
58	1.88%	2.48%	1.4%	0.35%	0.43%	0.27%
59	1.99%	2.63%	1.48%	0.39%	0.48%	0.29%
60	2.1%	2.78%	1.56%	0.44%	0.55%	0.32%
61	2.22%	2.94%	1.66%	0.48%	0.61%	0.35%
62	2.36%	3.13%	1.76%	0.53%	0.67%	0.38%
63	2.52%	3.33%	1.89%	0.58%	0.75%	0.42%
64	2.7%	3.56%	2.04%	0.65%	0.83%	0.47%
65	2.89%	3.81%	2.21%	0.72%	0.9%	0.54%
66	3.1%	4.05%	2.38%	0.79%	1%	0.58%
67	3.3%	4.29%	2.57%	0.86%	1.1%	0.62%
68	3.5%	4.52%	2.75%	0.92%	1.18%	0.66%
69	3.69%	4.74%	2.94%	0.99%	1.26%	0.73%
70	3.89%	4.96%	3.13%	1.1%	1.4%	0.82%
71	4.11%	5.21%	3.34%	1.22%	1.56%	0.92%
72	4.36%	5.51%	3.59%	1.35%	1.73%	1.02%
73	4.66%	5.85%	3.87%	1.49%	1.9%	1.12%
74	5%	6.24%	4.19%	1.64%	2.08%	1.25%
75	5.36%	6.66%	4.55%	1.81%	2.28%	1.4%
76	5.72%	7.07%	4.92%	2.01%	2.52%	1.57%
77	6.07%	7.44%	5.28%	2.25%	2.81%	1.77%
78	6.39%	7.75%	5.63%	2.54%	3.17%	2.01%
79	6.68%	8.02%	5.97%	2.9%	3.62%	2.28%
80	6.98%	8.28%	6.31%	3.32%	4.14%	2.63%
81	7.32%	8.59%	6.69%	3.81%	4.71%	3.08%
82	7.73%	8.99%	7.13%	4.38%	5.35%	3.62%
83	8.22%	9.48%	7.64%	5.07%	6.13%	4.25%
84	8.79%	10.1%	8.24%	5.84%	7.05%	4.96%
85	9.44%	10.7%	8.91%	6.74%	8.12%	5.77%
86	10.1%	11.4%	9.62%	7.77%	9.31%	6.72%
87	10.9%	12.2%	10.4%	8.96%	10.6%	7.88%
88	11.6%	12.8%	11.1%	10.3%	12.1%	9.18%
89	12.3%	13.5%	11.9%	11.8%	13.7%	10.6%
90	13.1%	14.1%	12.7%	13.4%	15.6%	12.1%
91	13.9%	14.8%	13.5%	15.2%	17.6%	13.9%
92	14.8%	15.6%	14.5%	17.1%	19.6%	15.9%
93	15.9%	16.5%	15.7%	19.2%	21.6%	18.1%
94	17%	17.4%	16.8%	21.4%	23.7%	20.4%
95	18%	18.3%	17.9%	23.8%	26.1%	22.8%
96	19.1%	19.1%	19%	26.3%	28.8%	25.4%
97	20.2%	20%	20.2%	29%	31.5%	28.1%
98	21.4%	21%	21.5%	31.7%	34%	30.9%
99	22.6%	22%	22.8%	34.4%	36.5%	33.7%
100	23.7%	22.9%	24%	37%	39.2%	36.4%

Death rate by age in South Africa compared to Switzerland

In South Africa, the most common age of death is 0, compared to 90 in Switzerland. The median age of death is 70.6 in South Africa and 87.1 in Switzerland — only half of the newborns in both countries are expected to live past these ages.

Table

Age	Death rate
	South Africa			Switzerland
	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
0	2,237	2,486	1,980	310	329	290.4
1	350	381	318	23.1	23.1	23
2	223.1	248.2	197	7.9	8.46	7.32
3	144.6	164.2	124.6	6.73	7.96	5.44
4	97.1	112.3	81.9	6.11	7.51	4.63
5	68.6	80.4	56.7	5.36	6.33	4.34
6	52.2	61.7	42.6	4.96	5.18	4.73
7	43	51.1	34.9	4.88	4.62	5.14
8	38.7	46	31.3	4.82	4.79	4.85
9	37.7	44.7	30.6	4.69	4.75	4.62
10	39.5	46.6	32.3	4.66	4.19	5.17
11	43.8	51.4	36.1	5.17	4.71	5.66
12	50.6	59.1	42.1	6.19	6.24	6.14
13	60.1	69.9	50.1	7.52	8.08	6.92
14	72.1	83.9	60.1	8.83	10.1	7.49
15	86.6	101.1	71.8	10.3	12.9	7.62
16	103.3	121.6	84.7	12.8	16.9	8.44
17	121.8	145	98.1	17.4	22.9	11.5
18	141.2	170.5	111.2	22.1	29.7	14.1
19	161.1	197.4	123.8	24	35.2	12.1
20	181.2	225.1	136	24.5	39	9.2
21	201.9	253.1	148.7	25.1	40.7	8.63
22	223.3	281.1	163	26	39.3	11.8
23	245.8	309	179.6	27.7	37.9	16.8
24	269.3	336	199.1	28.6	39	17.4
25	293.9	364	221.6	28.1	40.4	14.9
26	319	390	246.3	26.5	39.2	12.9
27	345	416	271.9	25.6	37.4	12.9
28	369	440	296.8	26.6	36.8	15.8
29	392	464	320	28.3	36.7	19.5
30	414	487	342	28.7	36.5	20.7
31	436	510	361	29.8	38.1	21.1
32	457	534	380	32.9	42.5	23
33	478	558	398	34.5	45.1	23.6
34	500	582	417	35.1	45.4	24.5
35	522	607	436	36.8	45.3	28
36	545	633	456	40	48	31.8
37	569	659	477	44.2	55.8	32.2
38	594	687	499	48.3	64	32.1
39	620	715	522	50.9	66.3	35.1
40	646	744	545	54.3	68.4	39.9
41	674	776	567	60.9	77.3	44.1
42	702	811	588	69.1	88.1	49.7
43	731	849	607	76.3	93.4	58.7
44	762	890	625	84.9	103.3	66
45	793	934	642	93.8	116	71.1
46	824	980	658	101	125.4	76.2
47	855	1,027	674	109.9	135	84.3
48	888	1,076	692	124.9	150.9	98.4
49	922	1,125	712	142.1	171	112.9
50	958	1,175	736	156.5	191.5	120.8
51	997	1,228	765	169.4	211.2	126.8
52	1,041	1,283	800	186.1	231.8	139.4
53	1,088	1,340	840	209.1	257	160.3
54	1,139	1,400	885	237.1	288.9	184.5
55	1,192	1,462	934	261.6	324	198.5
56	1,243	1,521	983	282.4	354	209.6
57	1,292	1,577	1,030	305	377	231.4
58	1,340	1,630	1,076	334	406	259.3
59	1,386	1,680	1,120	372	457	284.1
60	1,433	1,730	1,165	416	520	307
61	1,484	1,782	1,214	456	575	333
62	1,543	1,838	1,271	498	628	362
63	1,609	1,899	1,340	548	694	398
64	1,680	1,963	1,417	607	763	447
65	1,754	2,022	1,502	668	823	509
66	1,823	2,071	1,587	727	901	549
67	1,882	2,104	1,668	782	982	578
68	1,929	2,119	1,741	832	1,041	619
69	1,964	2,122	1,808	891	1,104	676
70	1,993	2,118	1,871	975	1,204	750
71	2,025	2,115	1,935	1,076	1,329	833
72	2,063	2,116	2,006	1,178	1,451	916
73	2,107	2,124	2,087	1,280	1,568	1,004
74	2,153	2,133	2,173	1,387	1,681	1,103
75	2,193	2,135	2,258	1,504	1,804	1,217
76	2,217	2,116	2,330	1,637	1,944	1,345
77	2,218	2,070	2,380	1,797	2,115	1,495
78	2,191	1,995	2,403	1,987	2,323	1,667
79	2,146	1,904	2,403	2,206	2,566	1,858
80	2,092	1,808	2,390	2,453	2,829	2,090
81	2,041	1,721	2,374	2,722	3,084	2,383
82	1,997	1,646	2,361	3,017	3,338	2,719
83	1,960	1,580	2,352	3,336	3,623	3,079
84	1,925	1,519	2,341	3,650	3,912	3,437
85	1,885	1,457	2,322	3,961	4,188	3,797
86	1,833	1,386	2,285	4,258	4,407	4,168
87	1,763	1,304	2,224	4,532	4,553	4,563
88	1,675	1,210	2,135	4,737	4,627	4,898
89	1,575	1,108	2,030	4,856	4,629	5,130
90	1,466	1,005	1,909	4,881	4,550	5,252
91	1,353	904	1,779	4,793	4,339	5,280
92	1,247	811	1,656	4,586	3,971	5,211
93	1,138	722	1,526	4,266	3,512	4,996
94	1,022	636	1,380	3,837	3,026	4,606
95	901	552	1,223	3,347	2,542	4,097
96	781	473	1,066	2,829	2,073	3,521
97	670	401	918	2,297	1,615	2,910
98	566	336	778	1,779	1,194	2,297
99	470	277.7	647	1,319	847	1,732
100	354	202.1	494	782	373	1,125

The chart above shows the number of deaths by age and gender per a 100,000 cohort of newborns, illustrating the distribution of expected mortality throughout life.

Note that the graph above does not represent rates per 100,000 population, as this would be skewed by age distribution and reveal more about South Africa and Switzerland demographics than the death rate. It also does not represent rates per 100,000 people in an age group, as this would be just the probability of death.

Life expectancy in other countries

Relevant pages:

• Life expectancy World
• South Africa vs Switzerland: Quantitative Profiles

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• Demographics
• Economy
• Population
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