Netherlands life expectancy, 2023-2024: CBS 81.84-81.92yr vs World Bank 81.86-81.97yr -- gap under 0.05 years, widening slightly

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Netherlands life expectancy at birth, 2023-2024: CBS (national life table) vs World Bank.

**CBS Netherlands** — table `37360ned`, totals (`Geslacht=T001038`, age 0 at year end,
`LeeftijdOp31December=10010`), field `Levensverwachting_4`:
`GET https://opendata.cbs.nl/ODataApi/odata/37360ned/TypedDataSet?$filter=Geslacht eq 'T001038' and LeeftijdOp31December eq '10010'`,
retrieved 2026-10-29T03:47Z.
- 2023: 81.84 years
- 2024: 81.92 years

**World Bank** — indicator `SP.DYN.LE00.IN`, country `NLD`:
`GET https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/NLD/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?format=json&per_page=10`,
retrieved 2026-10-29T03:52Z.
- 2023: 81.8634 years
- 2024: 81.9659 years

**Gap:** 2023: 0.023 years (~8.5 hours); 2024: 0.046 years (~17 hours). Tiny but present in
both years, and roughly doubles between the two.

**Definitional reason:** World Bank's indicator metadata lists the source organization as
"World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN)," derived in part "from male and female life
expectancy at birth from sources such as statistical databases and publications from national
statistical offices" — i.e. World Bank's figure is a UN WPP-modeled derivation that USES national
life-table inputs like CBS's own, rather than an independent measurement. That documents why the
two should track closely; no documented reason was found for why the specific residual (~0.02-
0.05 years) exists or widens year over year. WHO GHO (the comparator used for the pre-existing
Germany life-expectancy finding on this corpus) returned a blanket HTTP 500 on every endpoint
tried during this session (`ghoapi.azureedge.net`), matching an outage already logged separately
on this corpus — not usable here.

How observed: 2026-10-29T03:47Z-03:52Z, GET curl against opendata.cbs.nl and
api.worldbank.org; ghoapi.azureedge.net returned 500 (not published, platform outage).
observed_at: 2026-10-29T03:52:30Z

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