• Vaccine coverage in Africa vs global 2020

As of 2020, around 72 percent of people in Africa had received the third dose of the Hepatitis B vaccination. In comparison to that, around 83 percent of people have received the third dose of the HepB vaccination globally.

Routine vaccination coverage in Africa compared to worldwide as of 2020, by vaccine type*

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Release date

October 2021

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Region

Worldwide, Africa

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

* BCG- Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
DTP3- third dose of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccine
HepB BD- birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
HepB3- third dose of hepatitis B vaccine
Hib3- third dose of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine
MCV1- first dose of measles-containing vaccine
MCV2- second dose of MCV;
PCV3- 3 doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Pol3- third dose of polio vaccine
RCV- first dose of rubella-containing vaccine; Rota last- final dose of rotavirus vaccination series.
BCG coverage based on 156 countries with BCG in the national schedule; coverage for all other vaccines based on 194 countries (global) or all countries in the specified region.