The moving world
Income and lifespan
Farther right means greater GDP per person. Higher means longer life expectancy. Bubble area reflects population.
Global health time machine
Watch 34 years of health change.
Play the years. Each bubble is one country or economy: income moves left to right, health moves vertically, and population sets its size. Every stop uses a published World Bank observation.
217countries and economies
7World Bank regions
1990–2024published observations
0estimated missing values
1990
Follow three paths
Selected countries are labeled and leave a trail as the years advance.
Country histories
Life expectancy since 1990
Lines connect annual published observations for the three countries you follow.
What do these measures mean?
- GDP per person, purchasing-power adjusted compares the amount of goods and services an economy produces per resident after adjusting for local prices. It is not household income.
- Life expectancy at birth is the average years a newborn would live if current mortality rates continued.
- Infant mortality counts deaths before age one per 1,000 live births.
- Health spending per person is reported in current U.S. dollars. Exchange rates and inflation affect comparisons.
- Out-of-pocket share is the portion of health spending paid directly by households.
Sources and update method
The page is generated from the World Bank Indicators API. The data package records each API URL, retrieval date and SHA-256 response fingerprint. The source reported its latest update on 13 July 2026.
Caveats
Country averages conceal differences within countries. The chart describes concurrent patterns and does not identify causes. Definitions, reporting quality, territorial coverage and publication timing can differ. Missing country-years disappear rather than being estimated. Bubble motion between annual stops is a display transition; all values and tooltips report the underlying published observations.