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Table 1 COVID-19 vaccination coverage among HCWs and the general population by World Bank income groups (as of December 2021)

From: The global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination coverage among health and care workers

World Bank income group

[Number of countries reporting (% of stratum total)]

Estimated size of health and care sectora (millions)

Vaccination coverage among HCWs

Estimated size of the general populationb (millions)

Vaccination Coverage among the general population

Fully vaccinated

[million (%)]

Partially vaccinated [million (%)]

Not vaccinated

[million (%)]

Fully vaccinated [million (%)]

Partially vaccinated [million (%)]

Not vaccinated

[million (%)]

HIC [n = 34(60%)]

25.0

22.0 (88.0)

1.7 (6.9)

1.3 (5.1)

439.2

208.4 (47.5)c

25.3 (5.8)c

205.5 (46.8)c

UMIC [n = 37(70%)]

11.4

9.1 (79.4)c

2.1 (18.3)c

0.3 (2.4)c

583.3

175.6 (30.1)

308.1 (52.8)

99.5 (17.1)

LMIC [n = 43(80%)]

16.7

13.8 (82.7)

1.2 (7.4)

1.7 (9.9)

2917.7

691.1 (23.7)

536.2 (18.4)

1690.3 (57.9)

LIC [n = 25(93%)]

2.8

0.9 (32.6)

0.3 (11.2)

1.7 (56.2)

619.8

34.2 (5.5)

19.6 (3.2)

566.0 (91.3)

Total [n = 139(72%)]

55.9

45.8 (81.9)

5.3 (9.6)

4.8 (8.5)

4560.0

1109.4 (24.3)

889.3 (19.5)

2561.3 (56.2)

  1. Source: Data reported to WHO as at December 2021; 10 countries reporting data on HCWs did not report data for the general population
  2. aEstimated size of health and care sector was extracted from ILOStat 2021
  3. bEstimated size of general population was extracted from United Nations’ World Population Prospects 2019
  4. cPercentage summations exceeding 100 due to rounding off