WHO Health Data Scraper 🏥

Search and extract global health indicators from the WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) — the world's most comprehensive health statistics database. With 3,000+ indicators spanning mortality, diseases, immunization, nutrition, environmental health, and more across 194 countries.

No API key required — the WHO GHO OData API is completely free and open.

Features

• 🔍 Keyword search — find indicators by name (e.g. "life expectancy", "cancer", "diabetes")
• 🌍 Multi-country comparison — compare health stats across any ISO3-coded countries
• 📊 Multi-year time series — fetch data for specific years or ranges
• 🏷️ Sex/age filtering — filter by sex dimension (both/male/female)
• ✨ Data enrichment — country codes → full names, indicator codes → readable titles, dimension codes → labels
• ✅ Confidence intervals — includes low/high bounds where available
• 📋 Formatted output — human-readable table in run log + structured JSON dataset + machine-readable stats

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	✅	—	Keyword to search for health indicators
countries	string	❌	GBR	Comma-separated ISO3 codes (e.g. GBR,USA,DEU)
years	string	❌	2020	Comma-separated years or ranges (e.g. 2015-2022)
sexFilter	select	❌	all	Filter: SEX_BTSX, SEX_MLE, SEX_FMLE
maxIndicators	integer	❌	10	Max matching indicators (1-50)
maxResultsPer	integer	❌	100	Max data points per indicator/country

Example Input

{
  "searchQuery": "life expectancy",
  "countries": "GBR,USA,JPN,NGA,BRA",
  "years": "2020",
  "sexFilter": "SEX_BTSX",
  "maxIndicators": 3
}

Example Output

=========================================================================================
  WHO GLOBAL HEALTH OBSERVATORY DATA
=========================================================================================
  Search:        life expectancy
  Indicators:    3 matched
  Countries:     GBR, USA, JPN, NGA, BRA (5)
  Results:       15 data points

  #  Country          Indicator                          Year Value                        Dimension
 ───  ──────────────── ─────────────────────────────────── ──── ──────────────────────────── ──────────────
   0  United Kingdom   Life expectancy at birth (years)    2020 80.1 [80.1-80.2]            Both sexes
   1  United States    Life expectancy at birth (years)    2020 77.0 [76.9-77.1]            Both sexes
   2  Japan            Life expectancy at birth (years)    2020 84.7 [84.6-84.8]            Both sexes
   3  Nigeria          Life expectancy at birth (years)    2020 55.0 [54.5-55.5]            Both sexes
   4  Brazil           Life expectancy at birth (years)    2020 75.3 [75.1-75.5]            Both sexes

Use Cases

• Public health research — compare disease prevalence, mortality rates, risk factors across countries
• Policy analysis — track health system indicators over time
• Journalism & data viz — build dashboards and infographics with WHO-verified data
• NGO reporting — cite authoritative health statistics in grant applications
• Academic research — extract datasets for meta-analyses and systematic reviews
• Business intelligence — assess health market opportunities by country

Data Source

All data comes from the WHO Global Health Observatory via their public OData API (ghoapi.azureedge.net). Data is updated regularly by WHO. This actor enriches raw API responses with human-readable labels but does not alter the underlying data.

Pricing

Pay-per-result pricing — you only pay for the data you extract. See the Apify Store listing for current rates.