64’964 people died in 2016 in Switzerland. The 2600 is less than 2015, and in 2000 less than in the Ten-year average. The majority of people died at the age of over 80 years. The male life expectancy is 81.5 for women was 85.3 years.
The relatively low number of deaths in 2016 is due to the high mortality rate in 2015, which was caused by the flu and a heat wave. The Federal office for statistics (BFS) writes in a message from Thursday. By 2045, the number of deaths but sharply rise, predicts the office, and almost 100’000 per year. This is due to the increase in life expectancy.
In 2016, 44 percent of the deceased over the age of 85. 42 percent were 65 to 84 years of age, 11 percent of 45 – to 64-year and 2.8 percent under 44 years of age. “The probability of dying at a young age, is very low,” writes the BFS. Causes of death in young age are mostly external, such as an accident or suicide.
becoming less and less “lost years”
striking: between The ages of 19 and 27, more men than women die almost three times. May be the result of increased exposure to the young men’s behavior.
Overall, the most common is through cardiovascular disease-related deaths. This only applies to the Total of deaths and for the women. Men died, however, in 2016, for the first time more frequently of cancer than of cardiovascular diseases. The difference is only 0.1 percentage points.
Since 1969, the number of people who “die before their time” decreases steadily. The Rate of lost potential years of life (VPL) has been in the case of women by almost a third, in the case of the men, a good quarter. For men, the downward trend came in the second half of the 1980s, and provisionally to a standstill – due to the Aids epidemic, such as the BFS writes. (Dec/sda)
Created: 24.01.2019, 12:08 PM
