Vaccine inequity: 106 doses per 100 persons in richest nations

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 25

The richest countries of the world have inoculated 106 persons after every 100 for Covid-19 as against just two persons in every 100 in the poorest countries.

Acclaimed open source data bank — Our World in Data’s global vaccine report released today confirms gross inequities in the progress of Covid-19 vaccination across the world.

As of August 24, five billion vaccine doses had been administered globally.

Variations in the total doses administered per 100 people are shocking and vast — High-income countries: 106; upper-middle income countries 100; lower-middle income countries 31 and low-income countries 2.

Jab drive: India second

• China leads the world in cumulative vaccine doses delivered claiming to have administered 1.98 billion doses so far
• It is followed by India at nearly 600 million and the US at over 363.92 million doses, according to Our World in Data
• India lags on the share of population that has received at least one dose

The data shows 32.9 per cent of the world population has so far received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine and 24.8 per cent is fully vaccinated.

“Nearly 5.04 billion doses have been administered globally and 33.68 million are now administered each day. Only 1.4 per cent of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose,” Edouard Mathieu, Head of Data, Our World in Data, said today. China leads the world on cumulative vaccine doses delivered claiming to have administered 1.98 billion doses so far followed by India at nearly 600 million and the US at over 363.92 million doses, according to Our World in Data.

India, however, lags on the share of population that has received at least one dose and the percentage population of fully vaccinated people.

Where in the UAE 84.5 per cent of the people have received at least one dose, followed by 79.2 per cent in Qatar and 78.1 per cent in Singapore, in India this percentage is 33.1 per cent, slightly better than the world average of 32.9 per cent.

The share of population fully vaccinated for Covid-19 is also high for the UAE at 74.3 per cent followed by Singapore 74.3 per cent and UK 61.8 per cent. The world average of fully vaccinated people is 24.8 per cent and the Indian percentage is 9.6 per cent, lower than the global average, says Our World in Data.

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