World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory

The Global Health Observatory is the World Health Organization's portal for health statistics on its 194 member states. Its estimates, such as healthy life expectancy, suicide rates and the prevalence of obesity, are modelled with common methods so that countries can be compared.

Reuse and attribution

Licence
CC BY 4.0 (WHO datasets, with additional terms)
Attribution used
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
Conditions
WHO's terms for datasets (data.who.int) state that datasets are provided under CC BY 4.0 unless indicated otherwise, with an additional term on dispute settlement. Values are shown unaltered with WHO named as the source; WHO does not endorse this site. An older WHO policy for data compilations had narrower terms; the current dataset terms are the ones applied here and are re-checked weekly.
Terms
data.who.int
Role
Produces and publishes its own statistics.

How the data is collected

GHO OData API, JSON, one request per indicator for all countries. No key required. WHO has announced a move to a new OData implementation; the connector checks the response structure on every import.

Annual series are checked about once a week and monthly or quarterly series daily. A check that finds no change does not create a new version. The most recent change was collected on 9 November 2026.

Measures by frequency: Annual 14 .

Measures from WHO (14)