The proportion of people vaccinated in the European Union has almost tripled since April

How the EU vaccination campaign is progressing

As of May 21, 34.4% of the population of the countries of the European Union were vaccinated with at least one dose of the COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS vaccine, according to the Our World in Data statistical portal. This is almost three times more than at the beginning of April, when the proportion of those vaccinated with at least one dose was 12.4%. Thus, despite the slow start of the vaccination campaign, the EU is closing the gap from the countries that are leaders in vaccination rates among developed countries: Israel (62.9%), Great Britain (55.3%), CANADA (49.7%) and the usa ( 48.2%).

The positive dynamics of the growth rate of vaccination is also confirmed by the statistics of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). As of May 22, 39.6% of EU citizens received at least one vaccine, up from 15.9% in early April. The increase in the number of vaccinated citizens in the EU for the first month of the vaccination campaign amounted to 2.3 percentage points, for the second - 1.8 percentage points, for the third - 5.9 percentage points, for the fourth - 9.2 percentage points. p., for the fifth - 15.4 p.p.

According to ECDC statistics, the top five in terms of vaccination among the EU countries are Malta (60%), Hungary (58.1%), Finland (48.2%), Cyprus (46.2%) and Belgium (45%) . Outsiders are Bulgaria (12.7%), Latvia (23.5%) and Romania (25.1%). As for the three largest economies of the EU - France, Germany and Italy, the rate of vaccination there is growing, but the share of those who received at least one vaccine does not exceed half of the population. In France, the proportion of those vaccinated with a single dose of the drug is 38.5% (at the beginning of April - 17.9%), in Italy - 39.3% (15.2% at the beginning of April), in Germany - 44.3% (15. 3% at the beginning of April).