Covid-19 vaccine tracker: the global race to vaccinate
After a year of breakneck research into more than 230 vaccine candidates, seven coronavirus vaccines are now in use in at least one country. Israel has been the fastest to roll out inoculations.
As well as tracking vaccination progress to date, this page also provides updating superforecaster estimates of when a global tipping point might be reached in the race to protect against Covid-19. According to the latest data, there is a 96 per cent probability of reaching a total of 5bn doses administered worldwide before September 2021.
The numbers shown here are updated frequently, using data compiled by the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford, the World Health Organization and national data sources from some countries.
Vaccine rollouts in advanced economies are largely outpacing those in emerging and developing economies — even in countries with similar death rates. Officials at the World Health Organization have warned that the world is on the brink of “catastrophic moral failure” as poor countries fall behind. Left unchecked, the virus could also mutate into strains that existing vaccines do not protect against.
The slow pace of vaccinations in emerging and developing countries is a cause for concern among those waiting for a global tipping point in protection against the virus.
