Coronavirus vaccinations by state in Germany 2021

North Rhine-Westphalia had the most completed coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations recorded thus far in German states. The vaccination rollout in Germany followed the approval of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine in the EU. To be fully effective, the vaccine has to be injected in two doses, in two separate sessions. Since January 6, the Moderna vaccine is also allowed in Germany. Other vaccines besides BioNTech-Pfizer have been approved in the EU.

Number of recorded coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations in Germany in 2021, by federal state

Characteristic	Vaccination started	Vaccination completed	Booster shot
Total	60,241,008	57,729,749	17,710,503
North Rhine-Westphalia	13,677,304	13,019,727	4,155,215
Bavaria	9,200,871	8,907,821	2,915,897
Baden-Württemberg	7,748,372	7,496,366	2,286,128
Lower Saxony	5,957,454	5,692,054	1,700,386
Hesse	4,545,167	4,301,426	1,144,985
Rhineland-Palatinate	3,013,332	2,821,676	861,390
Berlin	2,696,303	2,603,487	859,661
Saxony	2,499,457	2,385,626	698,294
Schleswig-Holstein	2,223,381	2,154,923	678,989
Brandenburg	1,666,895	1,591,815	466,723
Saxony-Anhalt	1,489,754	1,437,535	433,240
Hamburg	1,440,512	1,396,240	329,693
Thuringia	1,398,127	1,346,905	425,272
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania	1,138,617	1,090,319	321,061
Saarland	773,963	744,611	249,125
Bremen	574,387	550,998	137,925

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Release date

December 2021

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2020 and 2021

Supplementary notes

Vaccination started: all first dose vaccinations with the BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines.
Vaccination completed: All second dose vaccinations with the BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines, as well as with Janssen.

The collection of data about the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations is carried out by vaccination centers and mobile vaccination teams. Authorized vaccination center and mobile team personnel can import data in the “Digital vaccination rates monitoring” ("Digitales Impfquotenmonitoring") web application and transmit these daily to the Bundesdruckerei Group (Federal printing office) through a secure internet connection. There the data is stored on behalf of and retrieved daily by the Robert Koch Institut (RKI). It may occur that data from individual states is completed or corrected. In these cases tables are subsequently updated.

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