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Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

This series has no golden-value checks assigned yet, so it is labelled unverified. The values are ingested from the official source with full provenance, but nothing here has been confirmed against a hand-checked reference point.

unverified 82.108 latest (2024-01-01) years unit annual frequency Canada geography

Coverage 1960-01-01 to 2024-01-01 · series id worldbank/SP.DYN.LE00.IN:CAN

Recent values

PeriodValueRevision
2024-01-01 82.108 1
2023-01-01 81.626 1
2022-01-01 81.095 1
2021-01-01 81.451 1
2020-01-01 81.53 1
2019-01-01 82.159 1
2018-01-01 81.804 1
2017-01-01 81.808 1
2016-01-01 81.94 1
2015-01-01 81.826 1
2014-01-01 81.784 1
2013-01-01 81.745 1

Verification history

CheckResultExpectedActualWhen
freshness pass 30h ago
freshness pass 4d ago
freshness pass 8d ago
freshness pass 11d ago
freshness pass 15d ago
freshness pass 39d ago

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License cc-by-4.0 (terms). Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators. Licensed under CC BY-4.0.

Official table: Life expectancy at birth, total (years) · The World Bank Group

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curl -X POST "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/answer" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dlk_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question": "What is the latest value?", "series": [{"source": "worldbank", "seriesId": "SP.DYN.LE00.IN:CAN"}]}'

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