electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-at-birth-oecd

Life Expectancy At Birth Oecd | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 1,650 observations · 30 Europe countries · 1960–2021 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,650 observations of Life Expectancy At Birth Oecd data across 30 Europe countries, spanning 1960–2021.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Life Expectancy At Birth Oecd

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AUT	62	1960	2021
BEL	62	1960	2021
BGR	62	1960	2021
CHE	62	1960	2021
CZE	62	1960	2021
DEU	62	1960	2021
EST	62	1960	2021
FRA	62	1960	2021
PRT	62	1960	2021
SVK	62	1960	2021
SWE	62	1960	2021
POL	62	1960	2021
NLD	62	1960	2021
HUN	62	1960	2021
NOR	62	1960	2021
...	15 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Austria
country_iso3	string	—	AUT
year	int64	—	1960
Life expectancy at birth, period	float64	—	68.7

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-at-birth-oecd")
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 at birth, period")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_life_expectancy_at_birth_oecd_2021,
  title        = {Life Expectancy At Birth Oecd | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-birth-oecd},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-at-birth-oecd}}
}

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

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