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Life expectancy at birth

Years at birth. Poland ~68→78; covid paused the rise.

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The file

Life expectancy at birth, years, 1960–.

The indicator

SP.DYN.LE00.IN is a period life table, not the age at death of people now alive. Child deaths pull the average — see Infant mortality and Under-5 mortality.

What the numbers show

Poland ~68 → 78.4 years; world 51 → 73. Germany ~81, the US ~79. Covid paused the rise. Spending: Health expenditure.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Life expectancy at birth”. World Bank Open Data (SP.DYN.LE00.IN), 1960–2024, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/life-expectancy/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Sweden202484.1
Japan202484.0
Italy202484.0
Spain202483.9
France202483.0
Netherlands202482.0
United Kingdom202481.4
Germany202480.8
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
Czechia202480.0
United States202478.9
Poland202478.4
China202478.0
Brazil202476.0
World202473.5
India202472.2

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