Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth (years)

Name: Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth (years)
Creator: WHO Global Health Observatory
License: https://www.who.int/about/policies/terms-of-use
Keywords: life-expectancy, hale, who

Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth (years) Source: WHO Global Health Observatory (indicator WHOSIS_000002). Rows are country x year; sex-disaggregated rows carry a sex label.

Source: WHO Global Health Observatory12,210 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026

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Quality

Attribution

World Health Organization (WHO)

Schema

Column	Type	Description
country_code	string	Country code (WHO GHO API field SpatialDim, country-level rows only).
country_name	string	Country name from the WHO GHO COUNTRY dimension labels.
year	integer	Year of observation (WHO GHO API field TimeDim).
sex	string	Sex disaggregation label (WHO GHO API dimension Dim1). Only present when the indicator is published sex-disaggregated.
value	float	Estimate value for the country, year (and sex where present), as defined by the WHO GHO indicator (see the dataset description; WHO GHO API field NumericValue).
low	float	Lower bound of the published uncertainty interval (WHO GHO API field Low). Only present when the indicator publishes uncertainty intervals.
high	float	Upper bound of the published uncertainty interval (WHO GHO API field High). Only present when the indicator publishes uncertainty intervals.

Sample rows

country_code	country_name	year	sex	value	low	high
AFG	AFG	2000	SEX_BTSX	46.02795049	44.93960224	47.30857785
AFG	AFG	2000	SEX_FMLE	46.15485101	45.17039466	47.42541106
AFG	AFG	2000	SEX_MLE	45.9436686	44.96394291	47.02571132
AFG	AFG	2001	SEX_BTSX	46.11612077	44.90757006	47.03309825
AFG	AFG	2001	SEX_FMLE	46.28487545	45.32448996	47.39427436

Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/who_gho/healthy_life_expectancy" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/who_gho/healthy_life_expectancy").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/who_gho/healthy_life_expectancy

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.