electricsheepasia/asia-who-diphtheria-number-of-reported-cases

Diphtheria - number of reported cases | Asia (WHO GHO)

🌏 2,066 observations · 48 Asia countries · 1974–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,066 observations of Diphtheria - number of reported cases data across 48 Asia countries, spanning 1974–2024, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

• Source: WHO Global Health Observatory
• Publisher: World Health Organization
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Diphtheria - number of reported cases

Geographic coverage

48 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
IND	51	1974	2024
IRN	51	1974	2024
LKA	51	1974	2024
MYS	51	1974	2024
PAK	51	1974	2024
VNM	51	1974	2024
BGD	50	1974	2024
CYP	50	1974	2024
MMR	50	1974	2024
JOR	50	1974	2024
THA	50	1974	2024
TUR	50	1974	2023
IDN	50	1974	2024
BHR	49	1974	2024
ISR	49	1974	2022
...	33 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• WHS3_41

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_code	object	—	WHS3_41
country_iso3	object	—	AFG
who_region	object	—	EMR
year	int64	—	1975
value_numeric	float64	—	22.0
value_low	object	—	—
value_high	object	—	—
value_display	object	—	22
last_updated	object	—	2025-07-14T16:36:19.017+02:00

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-who-diphtheria-number-of-reported-cases")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "WHS3_41"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value_numeric", title="WHS3_41")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "WHS3_41"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value_numeric"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_who_diphtheria_number_of_reported_cases_2024,
  title        = {Diphtheria - number of reported cases | Asia (WHO GHO)},
  author       = {World Health Organization},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://www.who.int/data/gho},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-who-diphtheria-number-of-reported-cases}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © World Health Organization. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-30 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.who.int/data/gho