The Global Health Observatory

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Universal Health Coverage

UHC enables everyone to access the services that address the most significant causes of disease and death, and ensures that the quality of those services is good enough to improve the health of the people who receive them.

Health Emergencies

Data about capacities required to rapidly detect, respond to and recover from any emergency health threat

Health and Well-Being

Data about mortality, diseases, substance and tobacco abuse/control and well-being

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) data

Data on the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is currently available directly from these sources.

Please note that the GHO APIs do not currently provide COVID-19 data. A data extract from the WHO Situation dashboard is available from UNOCHA's Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX ) platform. This content is provided as set of regularly updated CSV files.

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation dashboard

This interactive dashboard/map provides the latest global numbers and numbers by country of COVID-19 cases on a daily basis.

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation reports

This report archive provides the latest available gobal data and an overview of the current situation.

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Assistive technology

Child malnutrition and mortality

Environment and health

Global Dementia Observatory (GDO)

Global Health Estimates: Life expectancy and leading causes of death and disability

Global Information System on Alcohol and Health

Health financing

Health Inequality Monitor

Health workforce

Immunization coverage and vaccine-preventable diseases

International Health Regulations (2005) monitoring framework

Maternal and reproductive health

Neglected tropical diseases

Noncommunicable diseases

Resources for Substance Use Disorders

SDG Target 3.8 | Achieve universal health coverage (UHC)

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Sustainable Development Goals

Tobacco control

Vaccine-preventable communicable diseases

Violence prevention

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

Women and health

World Health Statistics

Featured portals

Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing

In this portal you will find the most up to date global health data, including regional and country data organized separately in the areas of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. The data can be visualized on charts and maps which you can download.

Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030)

This data portal for the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) Global Strategy is a collaborative product of the H6 agencies (UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, WHO and the World Bank Group) and other UN and technical partners supporting the monitoring of the EWEC Global Strategy and related SDG targets.

Global Observatory on Health R&D

This is a centralized and comprehensive source of information and analyses on global health R&D activities. The Observatory monitors various health R&D related data and incorporates these in comprehensive analyses, with interactive visualizations to help users track and investigate the development in health R&D across many dimensions. The Observatory will help governments, policy-makers, funders and researchers identify health R&D priorities based on public health needs and ensure that funds and resources are used to fill R&D gaps.

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy Portal

The SRHR portal is a visual summary of policies and practices from 155 countries on 6 SRH thematic areas Infertility, Family Planning, Violence Against Women, Cervical Cancer, STIs, and Sexual Health. The data presented was obtained in a global survey conducted in 2019.

Featured data sets

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Global health estimates

the latest available data on causes of death and disability globally, by WHO region and country, by age, sex and by income group.

Mortality database

A platform for visualizing mortality data by country, year, age, sex and cause of death as reported by countries.

The health-related Sustainable Development Goals track progress towards ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Immunization data

Download, visualize, and Interact with global, regional and country summaries of immunization data over time

Mortality due to unsafe abortion

Unsafe abortion occurs when a pregnancy is terminated either by persons lacking the necessary skills/information or in an environment that does not conform to minimal medical standards, or both.

Featured dashboards

COVID-19 situation dashboard

Provides the latest data on overall confirmed cases and fatalities as well as cases by country and comparisons by WHO region.

Triple Billion dashboard

Tracks the progress of WHO countries, regions and partners towards meeting the Triple Billion targets and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

WHO Health Equity Monitor

The WHO Health Equity Monitor provides evidence on existing health inequalities and makes available tools and resources for health equity monitoring.

WHO Mortality dashboard

The latest available data on causes of death and disability globally, by WHO region and country, by age, sex and by income group.

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