2020 Socioeconomic and Health Determinants for 266 Countries

2020 data for 25 socioeconomic, demographic, environmental, governance, and healthcare factors across 266 countries. It was compiled to formulate the Life Expectancy Determinants Index (LEDI) by author Amir Mukhtar.

Use Cases

• Construct a composite Life Expectancy Determinants Index (LEDI) using the 25 socioeconomic, demographic, environmental, governance, and healthcare factors.
• Analyze correlations between specific governance factors and healthcare factors across 266 countries.
• Model life expectancy outcomes using the 25 provided determinants as predictor variables for global comparative studies.

Strengths

• Covers 266 countries, providing a global scope.
• Includes 25 distinct factors spanning socioeconomic, demographic, environmental, governance, and healthcare domains.
• Data is focused on a single year (2020), enabling a cross-sectional snapshot.

Limitations

• The specific 25 variables and their column names are not listed, limiting precise analytical planning.
• Contains only data from 2020, lacking temporal depth for longitudinal analysis.
• The data collection and aggregation methodology is not described.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, contributed by Amir Mukhtar.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

The dataset record was last updated in February 2026, but the data itself is from 2020.

Geography

Global, covering 266 countries.