WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) OData API

WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) OData API

WHO's Global Health Observatory serves its health indicators through a keyless OData API. The GHO OData API page says: "The GHO portal provides a simple query interface to the World Health Organization's data and statistics content, using OData (Open Data Protocol)."

Coverage

WHO indicators (life expectancy, disease, health systems and more) queried by dimension, indicator code, filter and time period, returned as OData JSON; the Dimension, Indicator and per-indicator endpoints are documented with worked examples (filtering by country, sex and year). Update cadence: Not stated.

Verdict

WHO's Global Health Observatory indicators (life expectancy, disease, health systems) by country and year, as a keyless OData JSON API. WARNING: use is restricted to public health purposes: "Subject to these Terms and Conditions, WHO grants to you the royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, extract, download, copy, distribute, display or include the Datasets and data contained therein in other products for public health purposes." No commercial promotion: "Datasets shall not be used for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise and/or its product(s) or service(s), and/or in any way that suggests that WHO endorses any specific company, products or services." Alterations beyond minimal style changes need WHO's permission: "Any other alteration or modification of the Datasets (including abbreviations, additions, or deletions) may be made only with the prior written authorization of WHO." Required attribution format: "WHO, title of dataset, year, date of access, acknowledgement of the country or countries having provided the underlying data." Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.