Infographic: Which countries are closest to and furthest from full vaccination of their population

Last week the world surpassed one billion doses administered against covid-19, injecting optimism as the daily number of infections on the planet has reached record levels, in particular due to coronavirus explosion in India, which continues to advance in several Latin American countries.

Since December 2019, the pandemic has taken hold more than three million dead Yes it has infected more than 148 million people.

To face it, countries launched massive vaccination campaigns five months ago and last week, the billion administered doses of anti-ovoid vaccines were exceeded.

While vaccine doses remain relatively low around the world, most countries have focused their early immunization efforts on priority groups like people with pre-existing illnesses; the elderly, the hardest hit by covid-19; and health workers, such as doctors and nurses.

On another side, there are deep inequalities in access to vaccines depending on the income level of countries.

According to data collected from government sources by the project Our world in data from the University of Oxford, 83 percent of vaccines that have been administered in high and middle income countries, barely 0.2 percent of doses were given in low-income countries.

It is therefore not surprising that Africa has the slowest vaccination rate of any continent, with 0.9% of its population receiving at least one dose.

Countries closer to target

A person vaccinated means a person who has received at least one dose a vaccine and a person fully vaccinated received all required doses of a vaccine.

Most vaccines currently in use require two doses for a patient to be fully immunized. For the moment, only the Johnson & johnson requires a dose.

Israel is the country with the highest percentage of fully immunized population, that is, they have received all the doses prescribed by the vaccination protocol, with 58.6% of its inhabitants vaccinated; Among the best-situated countries are also the United Arab Emirates (38.8%), Chile (32.3%), Bahrain (30.9%), United States (28.7%), Serbia (19.4%), UK (19%), Hungary (17.7%), Uruguay (14.9%) and Morocco (11.4%).

On the other hand, countries like Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Honduras, Myanmar, Paraguay e Iran they are the furthest from full vaccination, with between 0.1 and 0.2 of the population vaccinated with two doses.

The situation in Latin America

At Latin America, where the pandemic continues to rage too there are important differences between countries.

While Chile Yes Uruguay They are part of the group of countries most advanced in the vaccination process, the percentage of people who have received both doses is decreasing, especially in Brazil (5.5%), Mexico (4.6%), Colombia (2.8%), Argentina (1.9%), Peru (1.8%), Bolivia (1.6%) and Ecuador (1.1%), with Paraguay in last place with only 0.2% of people receiving both doses.

In the case of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Paraguay on the percentage of vaccinated is low even considering only the application of the first dose, with respectively 5.7%, 3.7%, 2.8%, 2.5% and 1.2% of the vaccinated population; the figures improve in the event of Argentina (12.9% of the population vaccinated with one dose), Brazil (11.9%) and Mexico (9%).

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