Health - life expectancy, mortality, vaccination
Health indicators curated by Our World in Data from WHO, UN WPP, UNICEF, Human Mortality Database, and national statistical offices. Returns a long-form country-year series for the requested slug. Available slugs include life-expectancy, child-mortality, infant-mortality, maternal-mortality, healthy-life-expectancy-at-birth, global-vaccination-coverage. Data is published under CC BY 4.0 by OWID; the response envelope includes the dual attribution block naming the primary upstream source. Default window is last 20 years for cross-country pulls; pass country, start_year, end_year to widen or narrow the slice.
Query parameters
OWID chart slug for a health indicator (see /owid/catalog?theme=health).
OWID chart slug for a health indicator (see /owid/catalog?theme=health).
Filter by country. Accepts ISO3 (USA) or a ~/,/+-joined multi-country key (USAGBRDEU). OWID expects the English country name on the front-end; ISO3 via the filtered CSV is translated on our side.
Filter by country. Accepts ISO3 (USA) or a ~/,/+-joined multi-country key (USAGBRDEU). OWID expects the English country name on the front-end; ISO3 via the filtered CSV is translated on our side.
Inclusive start year (integer). Defaults to 2005 for unfiltered cross-country pulls.
Inclusive start year (integer). Defaults to 2005 for unfiltered cross-country pulls.
Inclusive end year. Defaults to the latest year available.
Inclusive end year. Defaults to the latest year available.
Response
Country-year observations plus indicator metadata and the CC BY 4.0 dual-attribution block (OWID + original upstream source).
Example response
{
"meta": {
"endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
"data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
"response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
"provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
"source": "sugra_crypto",
"attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
"fallback_chain": [
"sugra_crypto",
"sugra_finance"
]
}
}