(CNN Español) — On average, more than 44.5% of the world’s population is at least partially vaccinated against covid-19. But the rate drops to just 2.2% in low-income countries. How are vaccination rates in Latin American countries?
Here are the figures from Our World In Data with a cut-off date of September 25 (some countries have figures from previous cut-off dates, according to the data available by country until the early hours of Monday, September 27):
- Cuba 78,46%
- Uruguay 78,27%
- Chile 78,10%
- Brazil 69.80%
- Panama 66.57%
- Argentina 64,59%
- Costa Rica 63.71%
- Ecuador 61,93%
- El Salvador 61.92%
- Dominican Republic 55.05%
- Colombia 50,06%
- Mexico 48.67%
- Belice 46.68%
- Peru 45.58%
- Guyana 44,54%
- Suriname 37.96%
- Paraguay 36,32%
- Bolivia 35,52%
- Honduras 31,87%
- Venezuela 30,66%
- Guatemala 23,94%
- Nicaragua 7,49%
- Haiti 0.37%
At the regional level, South America reaches a partial vaccination rate of 60.95%, while North America reaches 57.21%.
For comparison, the United Arab Emirates has 92.46% of its population at least partially vaccinated against covid-19; Portugal, at 87.82%; Spain, 80.37%; Israel at 69.24%; Vietnam, at 30.98%; and South Africa, at 20.22%.
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