WHO Global Health Indicators — Codes and Definitions

The World Health Organization's global health indicator catalogue as flat rows — code, name and language. Free public OData API, no key.

What you get

code, name, language.

Sample output

{ "code": "WHOSIS_000001", "name": "Life expectancy at birth (years)", "language": "EN" }

Limitations

• A catalogue, not the data. This returns indicator definitions. The values for an indicator come from a different WHO endpoint keyed on the code — so use this to find the code, then look it up.
• Several languages per code, so the same indicator appears more than once; filter on language.
• WHO revises and retires indicators, so a code found today may be gone next year.
• Names are long and inconsistently punctuated; search rather than exact-match.

Inputs

Input	Type	Default	What it does
search	string	—	Optional text to match in the indicator name, e.g

Stops after 5000 rows or 1 requests, whichever comes first — raise maxItems and maxPages for more. Requests are paced ? ms apart.

The dataset's SUMMARY records truncated and stopReason, so a run that hit a cap says so rather than looking like a source that had nothing more.

Pricing

Pay per result.

Fields

Field	Type	What it holds
code	string	The source's own code for the item. A CODE from that source's list, meaningless outside it.
name	string	Display name as the source writes it.
language	string	Language code for this record's text.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• WHO Global Health Indicators — Codes and Definitions declares all 3 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of WHO Global Health Indicators include code, name and language.
• WHO Global Health Indicators needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of WHO Global Health Indicators's 3 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• WHO Global Health Indicators documents code as: The source's own code for the item. A CODE from that source's list, meaningless outside it.
• Every number published about WHO Global Health Indicators is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• WHO Global Health Indicators is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

FAQ

What does WHO Global Health Indicators return?

It returns 3 documented output fields — code, name and language — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does WHO Global Health Indicators require to run?

Nothing. All 3 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does WHO Global Health Indicators need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is WHO Global Health Indicators billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.