electricsheepasia/asia-who-medical-doctors-hwf0002

Medical doctors (number) | Asia (WHO GHO)

🌏 1,226 observations · 47 Asia countries · 1971–2024 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Asia](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepasia)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,226 observations of Medical doctors (number) data across 47 Asia countries, spanning 1971–2024, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

• —Source: WHO Global Health Observatory
• —Publisher: World Health Organization
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Medical doctors (number)

Geographic coverage

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

Indicators (sample)

• —HWF_0002

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-who-medical-doctors-hwf0002")
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"] == "HWF_0002"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value_numeric", title="HWF_0002")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "HWF_0002"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value_numeric"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_who_medical_doctors_hwf0002_2024,
  title        = {Medical doctors (number) | 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-medical-doctors-hwf0002}}
}

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.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepasia

Provenance: ingested 2026-05-29 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.who.int/data/gho