Accessing the World Bank's World Development Indicators using Beyond 20/20 WDS

This task is to use the World Bank's annual World Development Indicators (WDI) to visualise and download male and female life expectancy figures in 5 year intervals for the 1980's and 1990's for various regions of the world. You will need your UK HE/FE Institutional username and password to complete this task.

Life expectancy is the average number of years newborn babies can be expected to live based on current health conditions. It reflects environmental conditions in a country, the health of its people, the quality of care they receive when they are sick, and their living conditions.

Visualising and downloading male and female Life expectancy figures in five year intervals for six regional groups