Global Health Observatory (GHO)

The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information.

The WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been upgraded and incorporated into the GHO, to provide you with more data, more tools, more analysis and more reports.

Database Data tables for all WHO Member States Reports WHO publications with major analyses Indicator registry Definitions of indicators and metadata

Country statistics Data analysis by WHO Member State Map gallery Global and regional data views

Maternal mortality [pdf 1.50Mb]
Presentation, Women Deliver 2010 conference, June 2010, by Dr Ties Boerma

Presentation [pdf 930kb]
World Health Assembly 2010, Technical briefing on MDGs progress and challenges, by Carla Abou-Zahr

World Health Statistics 2010
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