who_gho

Who Gho

Name: Who Gho
Creator: Who Gho

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download who_gho series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/who_gho.html
Update cadence: monthly
Update strategy: extend by date
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/who_gho/who_gho.parquet (~58 MB; series_key=CODE:GEO / obs_date / value). Side-car _who_gho_log.txt. Checkpoints every 200 indicators overwrite the same single file.

Full description

WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) — 3,059 health indicators, all countries. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Source: https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/ No API key required. Coverage: * Life expectancy, mortality, disease burden, nutrition, health systems * ~3,059 indicators × 194 countries × 1990–present Strategy: * GET /api/Indicator → list all indicator codes * For each indicator: GET /api/{indicator}?$filter=... → all observations * Long format Parquet; fully resumable (skip existing parquets) Run: python jobs/ingest_who_gho.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets