This joint effort of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) enables users to build water supply and sanitation data representations as either a map, graph or table that you can then export. (Source: World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF))
UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater related issues. Established in 2003, it monitors and reports on the state, utilization and management of the world’s freshwater resources and on the
situation of sanitation. It's report, "Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water" (GLAAS), is produced every two years by the World Health Organization (WHO) on behalf of UN-Water. This report provides a global update on the policy frameworks, institutional arrangements, human resource base, and international and national finance streams in support of sanitation and drinking-water. It is a substantive input into the activities of Sanitation and Water for All (SWA). The 2011 data used for the 2012 report is linked under the heading "Archive and previous GLAAS reports." (Source: World Health Organization)
Provides access to the UN-Water division's statistics including the Key Water Indicator Portal and stats broken down by subject: Water and Urbanization; Water and Climate Change; Water Resources; Water Use; Drinking Water and Sanitation; Water, Agriculture and Food Security; and Water Pollution, Environmental Degradation and Disasters. (Source: UN-Water)
A joint project of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), this group works on initiatives linked to water law, health and development. This web site offers, not data or statistics strictly, but a database of national water legislation and will offer a database of national water quality standards. (Source: Water Law and Standards)
International in scope. Health data available here includes current and historical statistics on fertility, child labor, birth rate, contraceptive prevalence, death rate, hospital beds, immunizations, life expectancy, malnutrition, physicians, smoking prevalence, and water pollution. Covers all countries but availability of data may vary.
“The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.” (Source: World Health Organization) Data available for the 192 countries covered by WHO include information on diseases, vital statistics, health, and more. Historical data is somewhat spotty but an online query tool allows researchers to download datasets to Excel.
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This page was last updated Monday, March 26, 2007.
