{"id":1657,"date":"2021-10-26T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2021-10-26T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:23:39","slug":"how-close-are-we-to-reaching-whos-goal-of-40-vaccination-coverage-worldwide-by-end-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"How close are we to reaching WHO&#8217;s goal of 40% vaccination coverage worldwide by end-December?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>The World Health Organization is aiming to have at least 40% of the population in all countries\u00a0fully vaccinated by the end of the year.\u00a0 How close\/far are we from meeting that goal?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0On October 7th, WHO launched its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/immunization\/covid-19\/strategy-to-achieve-global-covid-19-vaccination-by-mid-2022.pdf?sfvrsn=5a68433c_5\">Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022<\/a>. The strategy calls for 40% vaccination coverage (e.g. 40% of the population fully vaccinated) in all countries by end-December 2021 and 70% coverage in all countries by mid-June 2022.\u00a0 We are on track to achieve at least 40% global population vaccination coverage by the end of the year, but many countries (predominantly low-income ones) remain far from reaching the target. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/covid-vaccinations\">OurWorldInData<\/a>, as of October 25th:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>37% of the world&#8217;s population had been fully vaccinated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>46% of all countries had achieved at least 40% vaccination coverage (95 out of 205 countries with vaccination data).<ul><li>13% of all countries had achieved at least 70% vaccination coverage (27 of 205 countries).<\/li><li>All major regions of the world except Africa had achieved at least 40% vaccination coverage; Africa has only reached 5.5% vaccination coverage.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>53% of all countries had NOT achieved at least 40% vaccination coverage (110 out of 205 countries) (<strong>Figure 1<\/strong>)<ul><li>Countries that had not yet reached the end-December target are predominantly low- and lower-middle income countries.<\/li><li>The pace of vaccination has been slowest in low-income countries. (<strong>Figure 2<\/strong>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>Related, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/immunization\/covid-19\/strategy-to-achieve-global-covid-19-vaccination-by-mid-2022.pdf?sfvrsn=5a68433c_5\">WHO suggests<\/a>\u00a0that another $8 billion USD is needed to fill urgent programmatic gaps in low and lower-middle income countries (note: total financing for low and lower-middle income countries is estimated to be $55 billion, but much of that is already secured).<\/li><li>In case you&#8217;re interested, the US didn&#8217;t reach the 40% coverage target until end-May 2021 (~6 months since vaccinations began in\u00a0the country).\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 1. Countries that have not yet reached 40% vaccination coverage<\/strong>\u00a0(map made by me using data from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/covid-vaccinations\">OurWorldInData<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-9.png?resize=723%2C449&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-9.png?resize=1024%2C636&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-9.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-9.png?resize=768%2C477&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-9.png?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Figure 2. Vaccine doses administered per 100 people by country income status\u00a0<\/strong>(from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/covid-vaccinations\">OurWorldInData<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-10.png?resize=723%2C461&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-10.png?resize=1024%2C653&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-10.png?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-10.png?resize=768%2C490&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-10.png?resize=1536%2C980&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-10.png?w=1561&amp;ssl=1 1561w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-10.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0The World Health Organization is aiming to have at least 40% of the population in all countries\u00a0fully vaccinated by the end of the year.\u00a0 How close\/far are we from meeting that goal?\u00a0\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0On October 7th, WHO launched its\u00a0Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022. The strategy calls for 40% vaccination coverage (e.g. 40% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,64],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends","category-vaccines","tag-who","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-9.png?fit=1160%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}