World Health Organization (WHO), Global Health Observatory (GHO)

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World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

2,207

Temporal coverage

2007-01-01 – 2021-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: cc-by-nc-sa-3.0-igo-who_rs
License URL: https://www.who.int/about/policies/publishing/copyright
Required attribution: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
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), Global Health Observatory (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_rs series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/who_rs
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