The European Union surpassed the 100 million dose limit on Wednesday (14/04), having one of the most advanced vaccination campaigns against Covid in the world. Nevertheless, it remains in the shadow of countries such as Israel, Great Britain and the United States.
The 27 gave at least 101.28 million doses to more than 73 million citizens, that is to 16.4% of their population, according to data collected by the French Agency from official sources. Among them, more than 28 million people, or 6.3% of the population, completed the vaccination process with the second dose.
More than 12% of the 820 million doses administered worldwide go to the EU, which accounts for less than 6% of the world’s population.
Malta and Hungary are in charge
In the EU two countries stand out: Malta and Hungary, which provided doses to 40.4% and 31.4% of their population, respectively. Highly critical of European vaccine management, Hungary quickly made the choice to speed up its campaign, introducing the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and the Chinese Sinopharm, which have not yet been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). in addition to the Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccines used in the EU.
At the other end of the scale, the two countries that are most late are Bulgaria (6.8%) and Latvia (8.3%). Their vaccination campaigns, which rely mainly on the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine, which is the most economical of its competitors, have faced repeated setbacks by the Swedish-British alliance (delivery delays, side effects).
The four most populous countries in the Union -Germany (16.8%), France (16.8%), Italy (15.8%) and Spain (17%) – moving around the European average.
By comparison, six Israelis in ten (61.6%) have already received at least one dose, almost one Briton in two (47.5%) and more than one American in three (37%).
In the shadow of… world champions
With 22.6 administered doses (first and second) per 100 inhabitants, the European Union is well above the world average (10.6). Its performance is also better than many big countries such as Brazil (14.5), China (12.2), Mexico (9.5), India (8.1), Indonesia (5.9) , Bangladesh (3.9), Japan (1.4) and the Philippines (1).
However, stays away from industry champions, such as Israel (119 doses per 100 inhabitants), the United Arab Emirates (93), Chile (64), Britain (59) or the United States (58).
Malta (58 doses per 100 inhabitants) is the only country in the Union to be in the top 10 in the world.
This indicator, not to be confused with the percentage of people who have received at least one dose, makes it possible to compare the progress of vaccination campaigns taking into account first and second doses.
Vaccination is accelerating
Every day last week, 2.4 million doses were given to the European Union. This means that 0.54% of the EU population received one dose each day. This rate, accelerated by increased deliveries, is 2.5 times faster than the global average (0.22%), but twice that of the United States (1.02%).
Hungary (1.16%) is currently the fastest EU country, and the fastest in the world, with the exception of microcosms. Only two countries with less than 100,000 inhabitants have slightly better performance: San Marino (1.52%) and the Seychelles (1.39%). In the EU, Malta (1.03%) and Germany (0.65%) complete the podium.
France, for its part, ranks 12th out of 27, administering doses to 0.54% of its population each day (364,000 daily vaccinations), which is exactly the European average.
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