I don't have personal experience of working with the WHO, but what you describe reminds me strongly of health academia. Lots of very clever people, all with min

I don't have personal experience of working with the WHO, but what you describe reminds me strongly of health academia. Lots of very clever people, all with minimal/zero awareness of how to make data available in a computer-friendly way. I suspect the data is available as a bunch of CSV files because that's exactly the raw data that has been produced. By hand. Then emailed to someone to dump onto a WordPress site, probably. It makes me wince. But hey -- the data is online, the funder is probably happy, some overworked and underpaid staff muddled through the way they've done for a decade or more. Why change?