Life Expectancy at Birth

Source

County Health Rankings (RWJF + UWPHI) · vintage 2026 · refresh cadence: annual

Years — primary health-outcome metric

Direction of better

Higher values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; higher score = stronger fit.

Unit

Values are reported in years.

Where the data lives

Tables: municipality_metrics

Columns: life_expectancy

Input field: life_expectancy

JSON-LD example

Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.

{
  "@type": "PropertyValue",
  "propertyID": "demographics.life_expectancy",
  "name": "Life Expectancy at Birth",
  "value": "example",
  "unitText": "years",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "composite",
      "value": "Health"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "level",
      "value": "city"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "direction",
      "value": "higher_better"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "source_year",
      "value": "2026"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "fha_safe",
      "value": true
    }
  ],
  "valueReference": {
    "@type": "QuantitativeValue",
    "additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
    "identifier": "demographics.life_expectancy",
    "sameAs": "County Health Rankings (RWJF + UWPHI)"
  },
  "mentions": [
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/county-health-rankings",
      "identifier": "COUNTY_HEALTH_RANKINGS",
      "name": "County Health Rankings (RWJF + UWPHI)",
      "url": "https://www.countyhealthrankings.org",
      "sameAs": "https://www.countyhealthrankings.org",
      "creator": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Robert Wood Johnson Foundation + University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute"
      },
      "temporalCoverage": "annual",
      "dateModified": "2026-04-01"
    }
  ]
}