DHS Program API (Demographic and Health Surveys)
RESTful API providing aggregated DHS indicator data for ~90 countries over 30 years, including household drinking water source, sanitation facility type and hygiene indicators. Endpoints for indicators, surveys, countries and data fields.
api.dhsprogram.com
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- 90+ countries
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- Household survey
- Drinking water access
- Sanitation access
- Hygiene
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Coverage gaps
Find who lacks safe water or sanitation.
Because it has: Drinking water access
- 02
Benchmarking
Compare utilities on service and losses.
- 03
Investment
Prioritise where new plants and networks should go.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Failure prediction
Predict pipe bursts and plant failures before they happen.
- 02
Demand forecasts
Forecast daily demand for pumping and storage.
- 03
Document extraction
Pull numbers out of PDFs and reports automatically.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
REST API: api.dhsprogram.com/rest/dhs/data, /indicators, /surveys; keyless JSON
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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