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Trajectory, not snapshots

Getting better, or worse?

Every relocation decision is really a bet on a trajectory. WhereNext holds the multi-year history behind every score — so we can answer the question a snapshot never can: which places are rising, and which are quietly slipping.

01

Biggest movers — healthy life expectancy

Change in life expectancy at birth, 2010 → 2024. World Bank, normalized across WhereNext's country set.

01South Africa58.9 → 66.3 yrs+7.4
02Morocco70.8 → 75.5 yrs+4.7
03Ukraine70.2 → 74.7 yrs+4.5
04Estonia75.4 → 79.3 yrs+3.9
05South Korea80.1 → 83.6 yrs+3.5
06Portugal79 → 82.4 yrs+3.4
07Panama76.4 → 79.8 yrs+3.4
08Sri Lanka74.5 → 77.7 yrs+3.2
09Georgia71.7 → 74.7 yrs+3.0
10Colombia74.9 → 77.9 yrs+3.0
11Romania73.5 → 76.5 yrs+3.0
12Indonesia68.4 → 71.3 yrs+2.9
13Czechia77.4 → 80 yrs+2.6
14Hungary74.2 → 76.7 yrs+2.5
02

Trend explorer — inflation

Annual consumer-price inflation, 2010 → 2024. The shock is visible; so is the recovery.

Germany 2.3% ’24Portugal 2.4% ’24
2010consumer price inflation, %2024

The read a snapshot hides: both economies spiked hard in 2022 — but by 2024 both had cooled back near 2.4%. A mover arriving today lands on the recovery, not the shock.

03

What the history unlocks

One retained time-series, four surfaces — already live in the data layer.

On the site

Trajectory, not snapshots

Trend arrows and “+3.4 yrs since 2010” on every country, city and dimension page.

Owned audience

Year-over-year stories

“Where cost of living cooled fastest” — evergreen, refreshable, citation-ready.

Revenue

A trend data API

A history tier worth more than a snapshot: from/to ranges, deltas, movers.

Intelligence

Analytics on the move

Correlate, rank and forecast across every metric and year — one source of record.

04

Already queryable

Every figure on this page comes from the live endpoint below.

GET /api/data/metrics?location=PT&metric=world_bank_dev.life_expectancy&from=2010&to=2024
→ { summary: { first: 79.0, latest: 82.4, change: +3.4 }, data: [ … 15 points … ] }

Source · World Bank Open Data, normalized in WhereNext location_metric_snapshots · CC BY 4.0. Every figure is real.