electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-hmd-unwpp

Life Expectancy Hmd Unwpp | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 4,434 observations · 44 Europe countries · 1751–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 4,434 observations of Life Expectancy Hmd Unwpp data across 44 Europe countries, spanning 1751–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Life Expectancy Hmd Unwpp

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
SWE	273	1751	2023
FRA	208	1816	2023
DNK	189	1835	2023
ISL	186	1838	2023
NOR	178	1846	2023
BEL	178	1841	2023
NLD	174	1850	2023
ITA	152	1872	2023
CHE	148	1876	2023
FIN	146	1878	2023
ESP	116	1908	2023
GBR	102	1922	2023
PRT	84	1940	2023
AUT	77	1947	2023
BGR	77	1947	2023
...	29 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Albania
country_iso3	string	—	ALB
year	int64	—	1950
Life expectancy at birth, totals, period	float64	—	44.5214

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-hmd-unwpp")
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, totals, period")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_life_expectancy_hmd_unwpp_2023,
  title        = {Life Expectancy Hmd Unwpp | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-hmd-unwpp},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-life-expectancy-hmd-unwpp}}
}

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-hmd-unwpp