Datasets:

electricsheepeurope
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europe-owid-life-expectancy-at-birth-including-the-un-projections

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - tabular-classification
  - tabular-regression
  - time-series-forecasting
multilinguality: monolingual
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
tags:
  - tabular
  - europe
  - our-world-in-data
  - life-expectancy-at-birth-including-the-un-projections
  - owid
  - long-run-series
  - time-series
pretty_name: >-
  Life Expectancy At Birth Including The Un Projections | Europe (Our World in
  Data)

Life Expectancy At Birth Including The Un Projections | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 6,644 observations · 44 Europe countries · 1950–2100 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 6,644 observations of Life Expectancy At Birth Including The Un Projections data across 44 Europe countries, spanning 1950–2100.

About the source

Source: Our World in Data
Publisher: Our World in Data
License: cc-by-4.0
Topic: Life Expectancy At Birth Including The Un Projections

Geographic coverage

44 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
`ALB`	151	1950	2100
`AND`	151	1950	2100
`AUT`	151	1950	2100
`BEL`	151	1950	2100
`BGR`	151	1950	2100
`BIH`	151	1950	2100
`BLR`	151	1950	2100
`CHE`	151	1950	2100
`CZE`	151	1950	2100
`DEU`	151	1950	2100
`DNK`	151	1950	2100
`ESP`	151	1950	2100
`EST`	151	1950	2100
`FIN`	151	1950	2100
`FRA`	151	1950	2100
...	29 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Albania`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`ALB`
`year`	`int64`	—	`1950`
`Life expectancy`	`float64`	—	`44.521`
`Projected (Projected)`	`float64`	—	`79.776`

Data quality & caveats

Life expectancy column has 51.0% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-at-birth-including-the-un-projections")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Life expectancy")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_life_expectancy_at_birth_including_the_un_projections_2100,
  title        = {Life Expectancy At Birth Including The Un Projections | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2100},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-birth-including-the-un-projections},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-at-birth-including-the-un-projections}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-birth-including-the-un-projections