Vaccination rate of children in Nigeria 2021, by type
In 2021, 75 percent of the children in Nigeria received bacille Calmette-Guerin, the vaccine against tuberculosis. A 65 percent coverage was also observed for tetanus vaccine and DTP-containing vaccines. Children who received the second dose of the measles-containing vaccine, as per administered in the national schedule, were 36 percent, the lowest rate among the different vaccines taken into consideration.