Life Expectancy at Birth Data from UNICEF

Life expectancy at birth data, representing the number of years newborn children would live if subject to the mortality risks prevailing at the time of their birth. The dataset is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) and was last updated on March 26, 2026. It is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Modeling population health trends based on life expectancy at birth.
• Analyzing disparities in child mortality risks across populations.
• Benchmarking national health outcomes using a standard demographic indicator.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), a recognized authority on child-related statistics.
• Available in two structured, machine-readable formats: CSV and XML.
• License (CC-BY-3.0-IGO) permits open sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and temporal/geographic coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 10:33:43.907682; freshness should be verified.