Who Gho

liveHealthDemographics

WHO Global Health Observatory API — search health indicators (mortality, disease burden, nutrition) and retrieve values by country and year (no auth).

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Tools

get_indicators

Search or list WHO Global Health Observatory indicators. Returns indicator codes and names. Use the indicator code with get_data to retrieve actual values. Example: get_indicators("life expectancy") o

No parameters required.

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get_data

Get World Health Organization health statistics for a country and year — life expectancy, immunization coverage, mortality, disease burden, risk factors and health system measures from the Global Heal

No parameters required.

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list_countries

Return all WHO-recognized countries with their 3-letter ISO code, display name, and parent region code. Use the ISO codes returned here as the country parameter in get_data (e.g., "USA", "GBR", "JPN")

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/who-gho/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/who-gho/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_indicators","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("get_indicators", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("who global health observatory api — search health indicators (mortality, disease burden, nutrition) and retrieve values by country and year (no auth)");