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Life expectancy at birth (years) by Country — History since 1960 (World Bank)

Life expectancy at birth (years) for any country or region (ISO-2 code), with the latest value, change vs. previous year and the yearly history (default last 10 years, up to 1960). Indicator SP.DYN.LE00.IN.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/wb-life-expectancy?country=DE&years=10&compact=1

Full metadata: without compact=1 · Markdown: format=llm · Only some fields: add &fields=a,b.c · MCP: tool call_api with {"apiId":"wb-life-expectancy"}

Parameters

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "wb-life-expectancy",
  "data_freshness": "cached",
  "data": {
    "indicator": "SP.DYN.LE00.IN",
    "title": "Life expectancy at birth (years)",
    "unit": "years",
    "country": "DE",
    "latest": {
      "year": "2024",
      "value": 80.7926829268293
    },
    "change_vs_previous": {
      "year": "2023",
      "value": 81.0414634146342,
      "delta": -0.24878049
    },
    "years_available": {
      "from": "1960",
      "to": "2024",
      "count": 65
    },
    "series": [
      {
        "year": "2015",
        "value": 80.6414634146341
      },
      {
        "year": "2016",
        "value": 80.990243902439
      },
      {
        "year": "2017",
        "value": 80.9926829268293
      },
      {
        "year": "2018",
        "value": 80.8926829268293
      },
      {
        "year": "2019",
        "value": 81.2926829268293
      },
      {
        "year": "2020",
        "value": 81.0414634146342
      },
      {
        "year": "2021",
        "value": 80.790243902439
      },
      {
        "year": "2022",
        "value": 80.6080487804878
      },
      {
        "year": "2023",
        "value": 81.0414634146342
      },
      {
        "year": "2024",
        "value": 80.7926829268293
      }
    ],
    "full_history_url": "/api/v1/series/wb.SP.DYN.LE00.IN.DE?format=csv",
    "served_from": "archive"
  },
  "source": "World Bank World Development Indicators",
  "license": "World Bank CC-BY 4.0 Open Data"
}

Recorded history available: /api/v1/history/wb-life-expectancy?country=DE&years=10

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