World Health Organization (WHO)

aid: who
name: World Health Organization (WHO)
description: 'The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations specialized agency for international public health.
  WHO provides free public REST APIs giving programmatic access to global health statistics, disease surveillance data, immunization
  coverage, health indicators by country, and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The GHO OData API exposes
  hundreds of health indicators across all WHO member states with no authentication required, while the ICD API provides structured
  access to ICD-11 and ICD-10 clinical classifications via OAuth 2 credentials obtained through free registration.

  '
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/who/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Health
- Global Health
- Disease Surveillance
- Immunization
- Health Statistics
- ICD
- WHO
- United Nations
- Open Data
apis:
- name: WHO GHO OData API
  description: 'The Global Health Observatory (GHO) OData API provides a query interface to WHO''s global health data and
    statistics, covering hundreds of health indicators across all WHO member states and regions. No authentication is required.
    Supports OData filtering, field selection, and is compatible with Power BI.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.who.int/data/gho/info/gho-odata-api
  baseURL: https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api
  tags:
  - Global Health Observatory
  - Health Indicators
  - OData
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.who.int/data/gho/info/gho-odata-api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/$metadata
- name: WHO ICD API
  description: 'The ICD API provides HTTP-based REST access to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11 and ICD-10),
    including the ICD-11 Foundation Component and Linearizations. Requires free registration to obtain OAuth 2 client credentials.
    Supports multilingual responses, JSON-LD, and Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://icd.who.int/docs/icd-api
  baseURL: https://id.who.int/
  tags:
  - ICD-11
  - ICD-10
  - Disease Classification
  - Clinical
  - OAuth 2
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://icd.who.int/docs/icd-api/APIDoc-Version2/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://id.who.int/swagger/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://icdaccessmanagement.who.int/connect/token
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.who.int
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.who.int/data/gho/info/gho-odata-api
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-health-organization-who-/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.who.int/news-room
- type: Pricing
  url: https://icd.who.int/docs/icd-api/license/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/WHO
- type: Plans
  url: plans/who-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/who-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/who-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com