# WHO Global Health Observatory — Country Health Statistics

> WHO Global Health Observatory — Country Health Statistics is a paid API for AI agents from health.memoryapi.org, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns WHO Global Health Observatory data including life expectancy, obesity rates, alcohol consumption, and air pollution metrics by country.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://health.memoryapi.org/x402/health/global
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/health-memoryapi-org-68ce1825
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vEQqmG5OANWeQrgmGUySw

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability health-memoryapi-org-68ce1825
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the WHO Global Health Observatory stats for Japan — I want to see life expectancy, obesity rate, alcohol consumption, and air pollution figures?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative WHO-sourced country-level health statistics such as life expectancy, obesity, alcohol, or air pollution. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, comparable data across countries from a single standardized source.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized country code returns an error or empty result
- Country not covered by WHO data returns no results
- Service unavailable or rate-limited returns HTTP 402 or 5xx
- Payment failure results in HTTP 402 with no data returned

## How this service works

WHO Global Health Observatory — life expectancy, obesity, alcohol, air pollution by country.

## Output

Returns WHO Global Health Observatory statistics for the requested country, including life expectancy, obesity prevalence, alcohol consumption per capita, and air pollution exposure levels, sourced from WHO's official global health dataset.

## Example request

```json
{
 "limit": 10,
 "country": "USA",
 "indicator": "life expectancy"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "required": [
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "example": {
  "data": [
   {
    "unit": "years",
    "year": 2022,
    "value": 76.4,
    "country": "USA"
   }
  ],
  "count": 10,
  "country": "USA",
  "success": true,
  "indicator": "WHOSIS_000001",
  "indicator_name": "Life expectancy at birth (years)"
 }
}
```

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