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who_hwf

World Health Organization (WHO), National Health Workforce Accounts / GHO

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World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory (Health Workforce data)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

4,421

Temporal coverage

1971-01-01 – 2024-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: cc-by-nc-sa-3.0-igo-who_hwf
License URL: https://www.who.int/about/policies/publishing/copyright
Required attribution: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory (Health Workforce data)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Restricted
Provider homepage: https://www.who.int/data/gho
Provider terms: https://www.who.int/about/policies/publishing/copyright

How to cite

World Health Organization (WHO), National Health Workforce Accounts / GHO. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/data/gho. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download who_hwf series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/who_hwf
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run

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 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets