{
  "dataset": "World Development Indicators",
  "indicator": {
    "code": "SP.DYN.LE00.IN",
    "name": "Life expectancy at birth, total",
    "year": 2024
  },
  "publisher": "World Bank",
  "retrieved": "2026-08-18",
  "year": 2024,
  "api_last_updated": "2026-07-13",
  "catalog_url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0037712/world-development-indicators",
  "indicator_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "terms_url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses",
  "attribution": "World Bank, World Development Indicators, SP.DYN.LE00.IN; World Bank API snapshots retrieved 2026-08-18; licensed CC BY 4.0.",
  "group_construction": "All economies returned by the archived World Bank country API as LIC or UMC were joined by ISO3 code to 2024 indicator values.",
  "group_classification_timing": "current at retrieval, applied to 2024 outcome values",
  "missing_policy": "Retain every classified economy in the coverage ledger; exclude null indicator values from numerical analysis without imputation.",
  "modifications": [
    "Joined archived country classifications to archived indicator values by ISO3 code.",
    "Kept LIC and UMC economies only.",
    "Renamed fields and sorted rows by group and ISO3 code.",
    "Applied no imputation, weighting, winsorization, or other value transformation."
  ],
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