As of March 15, 2023, Seychelles was the African country with the highest coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination rate, with around 205 doses administered per 100 individuals. Mauritius and Rwanda followed with 201 and 190 doses per 100 people, respectively. Ranking fourth, Morocco had a vaccination rate of approximately 148 doses per 100 people, registering the third-highest number of inoculations after Egypt and Nigeria. In South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, the vaccination rate instead reached around 64 per 100 population.

How did Africa obtain the vaccines?

Vaccines in Africa were obtained in different ways. African nations both purchased new doses and received them from other countries. At the beginning of the vaccination campaigns, donations came from all over the world, such as China, the United Arab Emirates, India, and Russia. The United Nations-led COVAX initiative provided Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech doses to several African countries. Within this program, the continent received nearly 270 million doses as of January 2022. Moreover, the vaccination campaign has also been an occasion for intra-African solidarity. Senegal has, for instance, donated vaccines to the Gambia, while in January 2021, Algeria announced that it would have shared its supply with Tunisia.

COVID-19 impact on the African economy

The spread of COVID-19 negatively affected socio-economic growth in Africa, with the continent’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracting significantly in 2020. Specifically, Southern Africa experienced the sharpest decline, at minus six percent, followed by North Africa at minus 1.7 percent. Most of Africa’s key economic sectors were hit by the pandemic. The drop in global oil prices led to a crisis in the oil and gas sector. Nigeria, the continent’s leading oil-exporting country, witnessed a considerable decrease in crude oil trade in 2020. Moreover, the shrinking number of international tourist arrivals determined a loss of over 12 million jobs in Africa’s travel and tourism sector. Society has also been substantially affected by COVID-19 on the poorest continent in the world, and the number of people living in extreme poverty was estimated to increase by around 30 million in 2020.

The number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered per 100 people in South Africa rose to 65 as of Oct 27 2023. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for South Africa Coronavirus Vaccination Rate.

As of November 22, 2021, around 41 percent of the adult population in South Africa had already been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19). Individuals in the age group over 60 years were the most completely immunized, at nearly 64 percent.

As of March 6, 20212 South Africa had administered a total of close to 32.03 million doses of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. The country faced a rough start to its vaccination program as health authorities claimed that the beta variant (B.1.351 or 501Y.V2) was resistant against the received AstraZeneca/Oxford immunizing. South Africa then started February 17 its phase one campaign, vaccinating health workers with Johnson and Johnson vaccines. Gauteng, the province with Johannesburg as capital, had the highest number of vaccinated individuals at 9.02 million. Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal followed with five million and 4.93 million jabs being administered. These were the same regions with the highest number of COVID-19 cases registered in the country.

Around **** percent of Africa's population was fully vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) as of July 11, 2022. Over *** million vaccine doses have been administered on the continent since the beginning of the vaccination campaign in 2021. In general, Africa's vaccination rate is far lower than the global average.

As of November 17, 2022, Egypt had administered around 100 million coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination doses, the highest number in Africa. Second in the ranking, Nigeria distributed ** million vaccines against the virus. South Africa, which accumulated the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the continent, carried out roughly ** million immunizations.

Africa still behind in the vaccination campaign

While *** doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered per 100 people in the world, the vaccination rate in Africa is ** doses per 100 individuals. Besides being far slowest than the global average, the vaccination is marked by a striking divide between African countries. In February 2021, Africa started receiving vaccine supplies under the WHO-backed Covax facility. Additionally, some African nations purchased additional doses, while others were benefited from bilateral donations.

High acceptance of the coronavirus vaccine

While the COVID-19 vaccination still needs to gain pace in Africa, the majority of the continent’s population was willing to take a vaccine against the disease. According to a survey, nearly ** percent of Africans would get vaccinated, once the immunizing is considered safe and effective. However, one in four people believed a COVID-19 vaccine would be unsafe. Over *** million people in Africa were already infected by the virus since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

Time series data for the statistic Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months) and country South Africa. Indicator Definition:Child immunization, measles, measures the percentage of children ages 12-23 months who received the measles vaccination before 12 months or at any time before the survey. A child is considered adequately immunized against measles after receiving one dose of vaccine.The indicator "Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)" stands at 76.00 as of 12/31/2024, the lowest value since 12/31/2011. Regarding the One-Year-Change of the series, the current value constitutes a decrease of -5.00 percent compared to the value the year prior.The 1 year change in percent is -5.00.The 3 year change in percent is -12.64.The 5 year change in percent is -8.43.The 10 year change in percent is -9.52.The Serie's long term average value is 76.26. It's latest available value, on 12/31/2024, is 0.343 percent lower, compared to it's long term average value.The Serie's change in percent from it's minimum value, on 12/31/2003, to it's latest available value, on 12/31/2024, is +22.58%.The Serie's change in percent from it's maximum value, on 12/31/2021, to it's latest available value, on 12/31/2024, is -12.64%.

Actual value and historical data chart for South Africa Immunization Measles Percent Of Children Ages 12 23 Months

Context

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the whole planet to its knees.More over 4.5 million people have died since the writing of this notebook, and the only acceptable way out of the disaster is to vaccinate all parts of society. Despite the fact that the benefits of vaccination have been proved to the world many times, anti-vaccine groups are springing up all over the world. This data set was generated to investigate the impact of coronavirus vaccinations on coronavirus mortality.

Content

country	iso_code	date	total_vaccinations	people_vaccinated	people_fully_vaccinated	New_deaths	population	ratio
country name	iso code for each country	date that this data belong	number of all doses of COVID vaccine usage in that country	number of people who got at least one shot of COVID vaccine	number of people who got full vaccine shots	number of daily new deaths	2021 country population	% of vaccinations in that country at that date = people_vaccinated/population * 100

Data Collection

This dataset is a combination of the following three datasets:

1.https://www.kaggle.com/gpreda/covid-world-vaccination-progress

2.https://covid19.who.int/WHO-COVID-19-global-data.csv

3.https://www.kaggle.com/rsrishav/world-population

you can find more detail about this dataset by reading this notebook:

https://www.kaggle.com/sinakaraji/simple-linear-regression-covid-vaccination

Countries in this dataset:

Afghanistan	Albania	Algeria	Andorra	Angola
Anguilla	Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia	Aruba
Australia	Austria	Azerbaijan	Bahamas	Bahrain
Bangladesh	Barbados	Belarus	Belgium	Belize
Benin	Bermuda	Bhutan	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	Brazil
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Brunei Darussalam	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso
Cambodia	Cameroon	Canada	Cabo Verde	Cayman Islands
Central African Republic	Chad	Chile	China	Colombia
Comoros	Cook Islands	Costa Rica	Croatia	Cuba
Curaçao	Cyprus	Denmark	Djibouti	Dominica
Dominican Republic	Ecuador	Egypt	El Salvador	Equatorial Guinea
Estonia	Ethiopia	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	Fiji	Finland
France	French Polynesia	Gabon	Gambia	Georgia
Germany	Ghana	Gibraltar	Greece	Greenland
Grenada	Guatemala	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Guyana
Haiti	Honduras	Hungary	Iceland	India
Indonesia	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Iraq	Ireland	Isle of Man
Israel	Italy	Jamaica	Japan	Jordan
Kazakhstan	Kenya	Kiribati	Kuwait	Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Latvia	Lebanon	Lesotho	Liberia
Libya	Liechtenstein	Lithuania	Luxembourg	Madagascar
Malawi	Malaysia	Maldives	Mali	Malta
Mauritania	Mauritius	Mexico	Republic of Moldova	Monaco
Mongolia	Montenegro	Montserrat	Morocco	Mozambique
Myanmar	Namibia	Nauru	Nepal	Netherlands
New Caledonia	New Zealand	Nicaragua	Niger	Nigeria
Niue	North Macedonia	Norway	Oman	Pakistan
occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem
Panama	Papua New Guinea	Paraguay	Peru	Philippines
Poland	Portugal	Qatar	Romania	Russian Federation
Rwanda	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Samoa	San Marino	Sao Tome and Principe	Saudi Arabia
Senegal	Serbia	Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Singapore
Slovakia	Slovenia	Solomon Islands	Somalia	South Africa
Republic of Korea	South Sudan	Spain	Sri Lanka	Sudan
Suriname	Sweden	Switzerland	Syrian Arab Republic	Tajikistan
United Republic of Tanzania	Thailand	Togo	Tonga	Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia	Turkey	Turkmenistan	Turks and Caicos Islands	Tuvalu
Uganda	Ukraine	United Arab Emirates	The United Kingdom	United States of America
Uruguay	Uzbekistan	Vanuatu	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	Viet Nam
Wallis and Futuna	Yemen	Zambia	Zimbabwe

South Africa ZA: Immunization: DPT: % of Children Aged 12-23 Months data was reported at 66.000 % in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 75.000 % for 2015. South Africa ZA: Immunization: DPT: % of Children Aged 12-23 Months data is updated yearly, averaging 73.500 % from Dec 1983 (Median) to 2016, with 34 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 82.000 % in 2007 and a record low of 65.000 % in 2012. South Africa ZA: Immunization: DPT: % of Children Aged 12-23 Months data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Africa – Table ZA.World Bank: Health Statistics. Child immunization, DPT, measures the percentage of children ages 12-23 months who received DPT vaccinations before 12 months or at any time before the survey. A child is considered adequately immunized against diphtheria, pertussis (or whooping cough), and tetanus (DPT) after receiving three doses of vaccine.; ; WHO and UNICEF (http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/en/).; Weighted average;

Actual value and historical data chart for South Africa Immunization Bcg Percent Of One Year Old Children

Actual value and historical data chart for South Africa Immunization Dpt Percent Of Children Ages 12 23 Months

Actual value and historical data chart for South Africa Immunization Hepb3 Percent Of One Year Old Children

Immunization, Hib3 (% of children ages 12-23 months) in South Africa was reported at 79 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. South Africa - Immunization, Hib3 (% of children ages 12-23 months) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.

In June 2022, the highest level of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was reported among people surveyed in India at **** percent, China had the second highest vaccine acceptance level at **** percent. On the other hand, South Africa had the highest COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy level at **** percent. This statistic illustrates the level of vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among people towards COVID-19 vaccine as of June 2022, by county.

In June 2022, the highest level of support for the use of COVID vaccine mandates for international travel was reported among people surveyed in India at **** percent. On the other hand, the lowest level of support for the use of such a mandate was reported in South Africa at **** percent. This statistic illustrates the level of support for using COVID vaccine mandate for international travel in 2022, by country.

As of November 18, 2022, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa amounted to around 12.7 million, which represented around two percent of the infections around the world. By the same date, coronavirus cases globally were over 640 million, deaths were over six million, while approximately 620 million people recovered from the disease. On the African continent, South Africa was the most drastically affected country, with more than 3.6 million infections.

The African continent fighting the pandemic  

The African continent first came in contact with the coronavirus pandemic on February 14, 2020, in the northernmost part, particularly Egypt. Since then, the different governments took severe restrictive measures to try to curb the spread of the disease. Moreover, the official numbers of the African continent are significantly lower than those of Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Nevertheless, the infectious disease still managed to have its effects on several countries. South Africa had the highest number of deaths. Morocco and Tunisia, the second and third most affected in Africa, recorded 16,002 and 27,824 deaths, respectively, while Egypt registered at 24,132 as of March 02, 2022.

 

The light at the end of the tunnel  

Although the African countries still have a long way to fully combat the virus, vaccination programs have been rolled out in the majority of Africa. Also, according to a survey, public opinion in several African countries shows a high willingness to be vaccinated, with Ethiopia having numbers as high as 94 percent. As of March 2022, Egypt was the country administering the highest number of vaccine doses, however, Seychelles had the highest per rate per 100 people .

As of May 2, 2023, there were roughly 687 million global cases of COVID-19. Around 660 million people had recovered from the disease, while there had been almost 6.87 million deaths. The United States, India, and Brazil have been among the countries hardest hit by the pandemic.

The various types of human coronavirus The SARS-CoV-2 virus is the seventh known coronavirus to infect humans. Its emergence makes it the third in recent years to cause widespread infectious disease following the viruses responsible for SARS and MERS. A continual problem is that viruses naturally mutate as they attempt to survive. Notable new variants of SARS-CoV-2 were first identified in the UK, South Africa, and Brazil. Variants are of particular interest because they are associated with increased transmission.

Vaccination campaigns Common human coronaviruses typically cause mild symptoms such as a cough or a cold, but the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to more severe respiratory illnesses and deaths worldwide. Several COVID-19 vaccines have now been approved and are being used around the world.

Among the four countries, Angolans had the highest proportion of individuals needing to pay a bribe to get access to medical care, with ** percent claiming they had to bribe or do a favor to a health worker or hospital staff a few times and often. ** percent, on the other hand, did so once or twice. Moreover, smaller proportions of Basotho and Batswana reported the need to paying a bribe to obtain healthcare.