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Life expectancy at birth by country, 1543–2023
Period life expectancy at birth for every country and world region, from the earliest available year to 2023. One row per country-year with the ISO code, so it is ready for panel regressions, convergence analysis, cohort comparisons and long-run trend charts.
- Rows
- 21,565
- Columns
- 4
- File size
- 591.1 KB
- Source
- Our World in Data (UN WPP, HMD, Zijdeman et al.)
Preview
First 3 rows, exactly as they appear in the file.
| entity | code | year | life_expectancy_0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1950 | 28.1563 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1951 | 28.5836 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1952 | 29.0138 |
Schema
4 columns and 21,565 rows, with the detected type and missing-value count for each column.
| Column | Type | Missing values |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | 0 |
| code | text | 0 |
| year | text | 0 |
| life_expectancy_0 | text | 0 |
Source & licence
- Source
- Our World in Data (UN WPP, HMD, Zijdeman et al.)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Extracted
- 10/8/2026, 12:03:49 AM
- Detected format
- text/csv
Version 1: Initial import from the official open-data release.
Original source: ourworldindata.org · CC BY 4.0