Countries around the world compete to vaccinate their populations, with 30% of the planet protected from serious disease and deaths from covid-19. But some countries are improving than others since Gizmodo last checked in July.
Unfortunately, the United States has moved from 18th to 40th place, with many rich countries receiving gun vaccines much faster than the United States in recent months. Currently, the U.S. covid-19 vaccination rate is stubbornly low at 54.44%.
The following list shows the percentage of the vaccinated population in each country, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. We have also included the population numbers of each country by perspective, although the best vaccination rates in the world are no longer necessarily dominated by small countries. China, for example, has vaccinated more than 69% of its population of 1.4 billion people, well above the United States, which has only 328 million people.
But smaller countries also experienced significant gains, including Singapore, with a population of 5.7 million, which did an outstanding job in the past two months, moving from 21st in the world to the third best vaccination rate on the planet. Singapore now has more than 79% of its population vaccinated and opens its economy to significant forms.
- 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
- Sant Marí – 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
- Swiss – 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
- the Savior – 47.64%, population: 6.4 million
Like the New York News points out in a weekend article that the United States now occupies the lowest vaccination rates in rich countries. Some rich countries like Australia continue to have problems, with only 33.79% of their population vaccinated, but exceeding 12.18% at the end of July. Japan is another rich country that has struggled with its vaccine deployment, currently standing below the U.S. with only 49.96% fully vaccinated.
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The relatively low vaccination rate in the United States has devastating effects for everyone, with an increase in new cases and hospitalizations that the country has not seen since 2020. The United States has an average of more than 145,000 new cases each day and 1,648 new deaths.
The pandemic will not end until all countries reach vaccination rates the same as the countries at the top of this list. But right now this seems increasingly difficult in countries like the United States, where vaccination against covid-19 has become a weapon. political issue from the hand of Fox News and far-right politicians.
According to the most recent Civiqs polls among registered voters, 91% of Democrats have been vaccinated against covid-19 and another 4% of Democrats say they plan to get vaccinated. Meanwhile, only 53% of Republicans have been vaccinated, and an additional 2% say they plan to get vaccinated. According to the same survey, 38% of Republicans they say they have no plans to be vaccinated against covid-19.
Get vaccinated today if you haven’t already, no matter where you are in the world. It is the least you can do to help us get out of this pandemic. Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective, despite the senseless nonsense being spit out today on Fox News. You don’t even need to get vaccinated for anyone else. Get vaccinated for yourself and drastically reduce your chances of getting seriously ill and dying from covid-19. It will be the best selfish decision you make all year long.
Correction: The population of the United Kingdom originally stood at 56.6 million. They are actually 66.6 million. Gizmodo regrets the mistake.