How healthy is Switzerland?

The 48,140 is the national cancer agency's yearly average over five years, the sum of its figures for women and men. Since 2020 every canton must keep cancer records; before that, part of the country was estimated.

The 17,918 deaths are the Federal Statistical Office's count of deaths from malignant tumours in 2024, of 71,942 deaths in all. One in four is Dooram's sum, 24.9 in 100.

The cancer page gives the sources in full.

Sources: Nationale Krebsregistrierungsstelle (NKRS), the national agency for cancer records, run by the NICER foundation, Cancer in Switzerland 2018-2022: all cancers (factsheet, 2026) (the national cancer agency's factsheet on all cancers, 2018 to 2022, in English), page 1 of the file, read 17 October 2026. Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS), the Federal Statistical Office, Sterbefälle und Sterbeziffern wichtiger Todesursachen, Männer, seit 1970 (T 14.03.04.01.03) (deaths and death rates by main cause, men, since 1970 (in French: Nombre de décès et taux de mortalité selon les principales causes de décès, hommes, depuis 1970)), 2024, read 17 October 2026. Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS), the Federal Statistical Office, Sterbefälle und Sterbeziffern wichtiger Todesursachen, Frauen, seit 1970 (T 14.03.04.01.04) (deaths and death rates by main cause, women, since 1970), 2024, read 17 October 2026.

The office checks the vaccination records of a sample of children in every canton; 2023 to 2025 is its newest round. The figure is for the whole country.

The worldwide estimate counts the second dose, made the same way for every country; Dooram's grade uses it. Switzerland's own figure leads here.

Sources: Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG), the Federal Office of Public Health, Durchimpfung von 2-, 8- und 16-jährigen Kindern in der Schweiz, 1999-2025 (vaccination coverage of children aged 2, 8 and 16 in Switzerland, 1999 to 2025 (workbook)), sheet 2-Jährige, Schweiz, 2023-2025, read 17 October 2026. World Health Organization and UNICEF, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026.

HPV is the human papillomavirus, a cause of cancer of the cervix.

The same survey of vaccination records as for measles, a sample in every canton. Boys are vaccinated too; their figures are not on this page yet.

Source: Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG), the Federal Office of Public Health, Durchimpfung von 2-, 8- und 16-jährigen Kindern in der Schweiz, 1999-2025 (vaccination coverage of children aged 2, 8 and 16 in Switzerland, 1999 to 2025 (workbook)), sheet 16-Jährige, Schweiz, 2023-2025, read 17 October 2026.

Eurostat's health accounts for Switzerland, 2023: all spending on health, public and private. Switzerland's own figures are published by the statistics office on a site Dooram does not read yet. Dollars are converted by Dooram at the 2023 average rate of 0.8985 francs to $1 (World Bank: 0.89849; the Federal Reserve gives 0.8984).

Sources: Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union), Health care expenditure by financing scheme (hlth_sha11_hf) and by function (hlth_sha11_hc) (the System of Health Accounts for Switzerland, 2023), hlth_sha11_hf, 2023, read 20 October 2026. World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the International Monetary Fund, Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average), PA.NUS.FCRF, read 20 October 2026. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, G.5A Foreign Exchange Rates (Annual), read 20 October 2026.

The figures are the cantons' official tests of drinking water, summed over three years in the national report on water and health. 19 cantons sent results for this substance. The report counts about 547,560 residents a year, 7.9 in 100 of the people in the areas measured, as affected for a short time.

The limit is 0.1 micrograms in a litre, the limit for every pesticide and the breakdown products the drinking water rules list as relevant. The food safety office calls it a value set as a precaution. Dooram does not say the substance harms health; the authorities say nothing more in what Dooram read.

Chlorothalonil may not be used in Switzerland since 2020, the food safety office and the environment office both say.

This is one substance, not every test of tap water. The report goes substance by substance and gives no single share of water that met every standard.

Source: Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen (BLV), the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, with the Federal Office for the Environment, Implementation of the Protocol on Water and Health in Switzerland, Status report 2022-2024 (the national report on drinking water and health, 2022 to 2024, in English), page 36 of the file, read 17 October 2026.

Groundwater measuring sites over 0.1 micrograms of R471811 in a litre, 2024

At 139 of 521 sites of NAQUA, the environment office's national network for watching groundwater, R471811 was over the limit in 2024: 26.7 in 100, Dooram's sum. Much of Switzerland's drinking water is drawn from groundwater, but groundwater is not tap water.

The national water report gives a higher share for the same network; Dooram gives the environment office's own table for 2024.

Source: Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), the Federal Office for the Environment, NAQUA, Pflanzenschutzmittel im Grundwasser 2024 (NAQUA_PSM_Grundwasser_2024) (the national groundwater monitoring network, plant protection products in groundwater, 2024 (workbook)), R471811, sites over 0.1 µg/l, 2024, read 17 October 2026.

The national network, NABEL, is run by the environment office with Empa. The 2025 figures are a first review and may change. The yearly values of each station are not on this page yet.

The guideline is advice on what is healthy; the limit is the law. The worldwide estimate comes from a model of the whole country, which is why it differs.

Sources: Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), the Federal Office for the Environment, Luftqualität im Jahr 2025, Rückblick (NABEL) (air quality in 2025, a review of the national air pollution monitoring network (provisional)), read 17 October 2026. World Health Organization, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026.