The world reached this Friday (28) the mark of 10 billion doses of vaccine against Covid-19 applied to the population.
Observing the numerical proportion and taking into account only the first application, the 10 billion doses exceed by almost 30% the world population of 7.7 billion inhabitants accounted for in 2019 by the “Our World in Data” platform, maintained by the statistics department of Oxford University.
Mathematically speaking, it would be as if every person on the planet had received the first dose. And just under a third of the world’s population already had the second injection in the arm. But again, this balance is just hypothetical.
The reality is quite different. “Our World in Data” calculated the percentages of vaccinated according to the distribution of countries grouped by the GNI (Gross National Income) index.
In nations identified as “Upper Middle Income” –as in Brazil– approximately 79% of the population received at least the first dose. In countries considered “High Income”, the percentage drops a little: 78%.
The balance of vaccinated people falls as the average income of the population decreases. In countries considered as “Lower Middle Income” – such as Angola and Bolivia – the application of the first dose reached 53% of people eligible for vaccination against Covid.
The worst case scenario is in “Low Income” territories such as Ethiopia and Yemen, where less than 10% of the population got at least one dose.
On several occasions, the board of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that, as long as the poorest countries do not reach significant levels of vaccination, the end of the pandemic will remain distant.
Source: CNN Brasil
