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WHO Global Health Observatory

WHO

Source homepage API endpoint Documentation

Access tierOPEN-API Queryable API, automatable end to end.
Access methodOData
AuthenticationNone
RegionGlobal
Topicsindicators mortality disease-burden health-systems sdg
Finest geographycountry
Update cadencecontinuous
Statusverified · last checked 2026-08-08
Registry idwho-gho

Quirks & gotchas

2000+ indicators, 194 countries. Current OData endpoint deprecated ~end-2025 for a new OData implementation — verify endpoint before hard-coding. UNAIDS HIV estimates also served here (HIV_* indicators).

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CDC WONDER
CDC / NCHS
NVSS Mortality/Natality Public Use Files
CDC / NCHS
DHS Program (Demographic & Health Surveys)
ICF
Our World in Data
Global Change Data Lab
Human Mortality Database
UC Berkeley / MPIDR / INED
US Cancer Statistics / NPCR
CDC + NCI

Provenance

Catalog contents: 114 public health data sources
Source of record: registry/sources.yaml in the HealthDataWhiz repository
Built: 2026-08-09
Machine-readable: catalog.json (CC-BY, reuse freely)
This entry: who-gho in registry/sources.yaml
Last verified: 2026-08-08

This catalog describes where public health data lives and how to access it. It is not medical advice, and it does not host or redistribute the data itself — always read each source's own documentation, licence, and suppression rules before using it. Access details drift; entries carry the date we last verified them. Sources marked RESTRICTED are listed for reference only — they require an application or data-use agreement and we never automate access to them.