Global Health Trajectories: Healthy Life Expectancy Trends Across 167 Countries, 2000-2030

167 countries' Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE) trends from 2000 to 2021, with projections to 2030, analyzed by Mayadhar Sethy. The dataset includes demographic decomposition of HALE gains and pandemic losses across 22 causes of death and 10 age groups. It also contains panel regression associations between socioeconomic factors and health outcomes like under-five mortality and immunization coverage.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of communicable disease control on life expectancy gains based on the decomposition analysis.
• Forecasting health outcomes under different policy scenarios based on the dynamic simulation models.
• Analyzing socioeconomic inequality in immunization coverage based on the Slope Index of Inequality (SII) from DHS/MICS surveys.
• Investigating the association between health service coverage and catastrophic spending based on the reported elasticity.

Strengths

• Covers 167 countries over more than two decades (2000-2021).
• Decomposes HALE changes across 22 causes of death and 10 age groups.
• Includes projections to 2030 under three distinct policy scenarios.

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 is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Observational study applying demographic decomposition and panel regression models.

Time Range

2000-2021 with projections to 2030

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-25 06:04:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, 167 countries