WHO Global Health Observatory

byAPI3·Free·Airnode v0.1.4

The World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory: mortality, disease burden, immunisation, life expectancy, health systems and the country indicators behind them, as the figures WHO itself publishes rather than a secondary compilation of them. This Airnode wraps its OData API, so a consumer receives what WHO published with a signature saying this Airnode read it at that time.

Everything is organised around an indicator, which is one measured thing such as life expectancy at birth, addressed by a code such as WHOSIS_000001. So a lookup is two calls: find the code in the indicator catalogue, then read its observations, filtered to the countries and years wanted. An observation carries the country, the year, the value and, where WHO published one, the uncertainty interval around it.

Data source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory (https://www.who.int/data/gho). WHO provides its datasets under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence unless a dataset says otherwise, and that attribution has to travel with the data. A dataset credited to a source other than WHO is not covered by those terms and permission has to be sought from the source it names. Nothing served here is endorsed by WHO: WHO does not endorse, and is not affiliated with, API3, AirnodeHub, this Airnode or anything derived from what it returns.

Every response carries an EIP-191 signature from the Airnode that served it, so the data can be attributed back to its source rather than trusted on reputation.

Interface

Served at https://airnode-who.fly.dev/. Each operation is reached the way the provider documents it, under https://airnode-who.fly.dev/api, and answers with the provider's own response and the attestation in headers, so a client built against the provider works unchanged. The same operations are also served as one JSON envelope on POST /, which the HTTP interface covers. Every request below can be sent from this page, and what comes back is verified right here in the browser.