Countries around the world are struggling to vaccinate their populations, with 30% of the planet now protected from serious illness and death from COVID-19. But it seems some countries are doing better than others.
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The following list shows the percentage of each country's population that has been vaccinated against COVID-19, based on data from Johns Hopkins University. We've also included the population of each country, although the world's best vaccination rates are no longer achieved by small countries. China, for example, has vaccinated over 69% of its population (1.4 billion people), far more than the United States, which has a population of just 328 million.
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But smaller countries have also made very significant progress in vaccination, including Singapore, a country of 5.7 million, which has done an excellent job in the last two months, moving from 21st place to the third best vaccination rate on the planet. Singapore has now vaccinated over 79% of its population and is “opening up” its economy.
- Malta – 82.82%, population: 502,000
- United Arab Emirates – 79.97%, population: 9.7 million
- Singapore – 79.10%, population: 5.7 million
- Portugal – 78.85%, population: 10.2 million
- Qatar – 78.33%, population: 2.8 million
- Spain – 74.50%, population: 46.9 million
- Denmark – 73.73%, population: 5.8 million
- Iceland – 73.63%, population: 357,000
- Chile – 73.36%, population: 18.9 million
- Uruguay – 73.30%, population: 3.4 million
- Seychelles – 72.63%, population: 97,000
- Belgium – 71.73%, population: 11.4 million
- Ireland – 71.02%, population: 4.9 million
- San Marino – 70.85%, population: 34,000
- China – 69.38%, population: 1.4 billion
- Canada – 69.17%, population: 37.5 million
- Bahrain – 66.82%, population: 1.6 million
- United Kingdom – 65.68%, population: 66.6 million
- Mongolia – 65.51%, population: 3.2 million
- Norway – 64.15%, population: 5.3 million
- Italy – 63.83%, population: 60.3 million
- France – 62.94%, population: 67 million
- Netherlands – 62.68%, population: 17.2 million
- Bhutan – 62.63%, population 763,000
- Germany – 62.02%, population: 83 million
- Israel – 61.18%, population: 9 million
- Mauritius – 60.31%, population: 1.2 million
- Austria – 59.68%, population: 8.8 million
- Sweden – 59.62%, population: 10.2 million
- Maldives – 59.33%, population: 531,000
- Monaco – 58.54%, population: 39,000
- Luxembourg – 58.08%, population: 614,000
- Cambodia – 57.28%, population: 16.5 million
- Hungary – 56.72%, population: 9.7 million
- Finland – 56.34%, population: 5.5 million
- Lithuania – 56.26%, population: 2.8 million
- Ecuador – 55.10%, population: 17.4 million
- Czech Republic – 54.74%, population: 10.6 million
- Greece – 54.54%, population: 10.6 million
- United States – 54.44%, population: 328 million
- Liechtenstein – 54.28%, population 38,000
- Andorra – 54.23%, population: 77,000
- Malaysia – 53.29%, population: 31.9 million
- Switzerland – 52.76%, population: 8.5 million
- Poland – 50.29%, population: 37.9 million
- Japan – 49.96%, population: 126.3 million
- Saudi Arabia – 48.51%, population: 34.2 million
- Turkey – 48.13%, population: 82 million
- Sri Lanka – 47.73%, population: 21.8 million
- El Salvador – 47.64%, population: 6.4 million
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As the New York Times noted in an article published over the weekend, the United States now ranks among the lowest vaccination rates for wealthy countries. Some wealthy countries like Australia are still struggling, with just 33.79% of its population vaccinated, but that’s up from 12.18% at the end of July. Japan is another wealthy country struggling, and it currently lags behind the United States at 49.96%.
Information source: gizmodo.com
