Figures & statistics

How many health professionals are being trained each year? How many foreign diplomas are being recognised in the different professions? The FOPH analyses data from several registers and makes them available to the public.

Health equity is of great importance. The National Strategy for the Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases (NCD-Strategy) and the National Strategy on Addiction focus on this topic.

Although the population is exposed to chemicals, there are no measurements that permit the situation in Switzerland to be evaluated.

In this section you can access information on health insurance premium trend monitoring, statistics on compulsory health insurance and other statistics relating to health insurance.

The FOPH is legally obliged to publish operating figures and medical quality indicators from Swiss hospitals. You can find out about hospitals, specialisations and performance, case figures etc. here.

Statistics on Accident and Military Insurance

Who has recourse to reproductive medicine? How many and what types of procedures are carried out? How many embryos undergo genetic testing? A monitoring programme provides facts and figures on reproductive medicine.