Life in Switzerland: Every Number That Shapes It (1800–2100)

The statistics of a Swiss life reveal a profound transformation in human experience. When we aggregate the lived reality of a nation, we find that the markers of basic survival—like the decline of child mortality from 64.31 to 3.9 per 1,000 births—shift the fundamental nature of the family. Simultaneously, the rise of internet access from 0 to 96 % and the expansion of schooling from 6.55 to 13.8 years represent a widening of individual potential. These data points do not merely track progress; they delineate the actual constraints and freedoms of being human.

The arc from the 1950s to the 2020s shows a society recalibrating its relationship with time and labor. While income per person grew from 10,708 to 71,000 intl-$, annual working hours simultaneously dropped from 2,183 to 1,530 hours/year. As extreme poverty plummeted from 6.14 to 0.1 %, the nation moved from a rural-industrial footing to an urbanized, digital state, with the proportion of people living in cities rising from 51.58 to 74 %. This trajectory captures a deliberate movement toward longer, more secure lives.

For a child born in Switzerland in the 2020s, the world is physically and structurally different from that of their ancestors. With an expected life span of 83.2 years, the modern citizen occupies a reality where average male height has reached 178 cm and electricity at home is a universal 100 %. You are invited to explore the data history to compute your own parallel life in Switzerland.