Russia ranked fifth in the world in the export of COVID-19 vaccines Russia

ranks fifth in the world in terms of production and export of coronavirus vaccines, follows from WTO data. Its share of the global covid vaccine market is less than 3%.

In the second year of the pandemic, a full-fledged global market for coronavirus vaccines was formed, in which Russia was able to occupy its niche. Late last month, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint project to regularly track information on the global trade in coronavirus vaccines.

According to these data, as of November 30, Russia ranked fifth in terms of both production and export volumes of the vaccine. RBC sent requests to the WTO and the supplier of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V to the global market RDIF.

In 2021, Russia supplied about 233 million doses of vaccine to the domestic and foreign markets (2.3% of the global supply of COVID vaccines), including 93.4 million doses for export (2.6% of global exports of COVID vaccines). from WTO and IMF data. Deliveries to the domestic market of approximately 140 million doses of the vaccine made it possible to vaccinate more than 70 million Russians in a full course (73.1 million as of December 24, according to the operational headquarters).