WHO Global Health Observatory Data Scraper

Search and download 3,000+ health indicators from the World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory (GHO) — covering 196 countries across mortality, disease burden, nutrition, immunization, health financing, and more.

Data is cleaned, categorized, and normalized with proper country names, WHO regions, indicator categories, and readable value formatting.

Features

• 🔍 Search by keyword — find indicators by disease, topic, or category
• 🌍 196 countries — filter by specific countries or get global data
• 📊 3,070 indicators — life expectancy, mortality, HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, diabetes, cancer, nutrition, immunization, WASH, health financing, and more
• 🧹 Normalized output — proper country names, WHO regions, categorized indicators, cleaned values
• 📅 Time series — multi-year data with confidence intervals where available
• 🔄 Wide or long format — choose your preferred output structure
• 🆓 Free data — WHO GHO is publicly available, no API key required

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
indicatorCodes	string[]	No*	Life expectancy, mortality, etc.	Specific WHO indicator codes
searchQuery	string	No	—	Search indicators by keyword
category	string	No	—	Filter by category code
countries	string[]	No	All	ISO 3-letter country codes
yearStart	integer	No	Earliest	Start year for data
yearEnd	integer	No	Latest	End year for data
maxResults	integer	No	1000	Max data points per indicator
includeMetadata	boolean	No	true	Include indicator names & categories
includeTimeline	boolean	No	true	All years vs latest only
outputFormat	select	No	long	long (one row per point) or wide (one row per country)

*Either indicatorCodes or searchQuery must be provided.

Example Input

{
  "searchQuery": "diabetes",
  "countries": ["GBR", "USA", "DEU", "FRA", "JPN"],
  "maxResults": 500,
  "includeMetadata": true,
  "includeTimeline": true,
  "outputFormat": "long"
}

Example Output

{
  "indicatorCode": "NCD_DIABETES_TREATMENT_CRUDE",
  "indicatorName": "Diabetes treatment coverage, crude",
  "indicatorCategory": "Diabetes",
  "indicatorCategoryCode": "DIABETES",
  "countryCode": "GBR",
  "countryName": "United Kingdom",
  "whoRegion": "Europe",
  "year": 2022,
  "value": 85.3,
  "valueDisplay": "85.30",
  "sex": "Both sexes",
  "ageGroup": "All ages"
}

Use Cases

• Public health research — disease prevalence, mortality trends, healthcare access
• NGO program planning — identify countries with greatest health needs
• Pharma market intelligence — disease burden by country for market sizing
• Academic research — reproducible health data for papers and studies
• Government policy — benchmark against WHO health targets and SDGs
• Data journalism — fact-checking and data-driven health reporting

Indicator Categories

Category	Examples
Mortality	Under-5 mortality, maternal deaths, infant mortality
HIV/AIDS	Prevalence, treatment coverage, deaths
TB	Detection rate, treatment success
Malaria	Incidence, mortality
Diabetes	Prevalence, treatment coverage
Cancer	Survival rates, screening
Nutrition	Wasting, stunting, overweight
Immunization	DTP3, MCV2 coverage
Mental Health	Depression, suicide rates
Health Financing	Expenditure, out-of-pocket costs
WASH	Sanitation, drinking water
Environmental	Air pollution

Data Source

This actor uses the WHO Global Health Observatory API (ghoapi.azureedge.net). The GHO is the World Health Organization's gateway to health-related statistics for its 194 member states. Data is publicly available and regularly updated.

• WHO GHO Portal: https://www.who.int/data/gho
• API Reference: https://www.who.int/data/gho/info/gho-odata-api
• License: WHO GHO data is publicly available — see WHO data policy