Life expectancy at birth (years)

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

Life expectancy at birth (years) Source: WHO Global Health Observatory (indicator WHOSIS_000001). 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	53.82332641	52.75192313	54.92601533
AFG	AFG	2000	SEX_FMLE	54.42957895	53.41471442	55.62508896
AFG	AFG	2000	SEX_MLE	53.24999078	52.28245137	54.25951111
AFG	AFG	2001	SEX_BTSX	53.91018761	52.85725031	54.84655332
AFG	AFG	2001	SEX_FMLE	54.57005863	53.56014964	55.62005472

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/life_expectancy_at_birth" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/who_gho/life_expectancy_at_birth").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/life_expectancy_at_birth

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