WHO Global Health Observatory - WASH Indicators
WHO Global Health Observatory theme page for water, sanitation and hygiene indicators (drinking water, sanitation services, hygiene, healthcare facility WASH) with country data downloads and a GHO OData API.
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At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- UN Organization
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- WASH indicators
- Drinking water
- Sanitation
- Healthcare facility WASH
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: WASH indicators
- 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
WHO GHO OData API: ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/{indicator}
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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