Climate Information for Health

This indicator reports on the number of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) national meteorological and hydrological services (NMHS) providing climate services to the health sector and is calculated based on self-reported information provided by NMHS through the Country Profile Database Integrated questionnaire. The data reflect answers to a question about which user sectors NMHS provide with climate information. The questionnaire is one of the main sources of information to the WMO Country Profile database and is open all year round for WMO members to update their profile information. For each service type, country-level data were extracted from the WMO Climate Services Dashboard and analysed in terms of both simple country counts and population-weighted coverage, the latter providing a more meaningful measure of the population actually reached by each service.

The current data source from WMO only considers climate services ) national meteorological and hydrological services (NMHS). It is unclear the degree to which other providers, such as academic institutions and research projects, private sector products, products from other Ministries, or regional and global products and services are being used, in proportion to services made available by NMHS. The open questionnaire can be updated at any time by WMO members, therefore the figures reported here may change over the year. As each country may update their profile information at different moments in time, snapshots do not reflect progress for any given year but rather information provided until a certain date.

The current questionnaire does not record the number of WMO members that do not provide climate services to the health sector and as the data is self-reported by countries it may therefore include reporting bias