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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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;

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

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:

South Africa ZA: Immunization: Measles: % of Children Aged 12-23 Months data was reported at 60.000 % in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 75.000 % for 2016. South Africa ZA: Immunization: Measles: % of Children Aged 12-23 Months data is updated yearly, averaging 70.000 % from Dec 1983 (Median) to 2017, with 35 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 85.000 % in 1993 and a record low of 60.000 % in 2017. South Africa ZA: Immunization: Measles: % 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.WDI: Health Statistics. 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.; ; WHO and UNICEF (http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/en/).; Weighted average;

Immunization against DPT of South Africa slumped by 7.06% from 85.0 % in 2022 to 79.0 % in 2023. Since the 2.38% rise in 2021, immunization against DPT dropped by 8.14% in 2023. Child immunization measures the percentage of children ages 12-23 months who received 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.

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.

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

South Africa ZA: Immunization: HepB3: % of One-Year-Old Children 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: HepB3: % of One-Year-Old Children data is updated yearly, averaging 74.000 % from Dec 1997 (Median) to 2016, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 83.000 % in 2007 and a record low of 66.000 % in 2016. South Africa ZA: Immunization: HepB3: % of One-Year-Old Children 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 rate, hepatitis B is the percentage of children ages 12-23 months who received hepatitis B vaccinations before 12 months or at any time before the survey. A child is considered adequately immunized after three doses.; ; WHO and UNICEF (http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/en/).; Weighted average;

79.0 (%) in 2023. Child immunization measures the percentage of children ages 12-23 months who received 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.

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

76.0 (%) in 2024. Child immunization measures the percentage of children ages 12-23 months who received vaccinations before 12 months or at any time before the survey. A child is considered adequately immunized against measles after receiving one dose of vaccine.

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.

Local disease burden data are necessary to set national influenza vaccination policy. In 2010 the population of South Africa was 50 million and the HIV prevalence was 11%. We used a previously developed methodology to determine severe influenza burden in South Africa.Hospitalized severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) incidence was calculated, stratified by HIV status, for four age groups using data from population-based surveillance in one site situated in Gauteng Province for 2009–2011. These rates were adjusted for each of the remaining 8 provinces based on their prevalence of risk factors for pneumonia and healthcare-seeking behavior. We estimated non-hospitalized influenza-associated SARI from healthcare utilization surveys at two sites and used the percent of SARI cases positive for influenza from sentinel surveillance to derive the influenza-associated SARI rate. We applied rates of hospitalized and non-hospitalized influenza-associated SARI to census data to calculate the national number of cases. The percent of SARI cases that tested positive for influenza ranged from 7–17% depending on age group, year, province and HIV status. In 2010, there were an estimated 21,555 total severe influenza cases in HIV-uninfected individuals and 13,876 in HIV-infected individuals. In 2011, there were an estimated 29,892 total severe influenza cases in HIV-uninfected individuals and 17,289 in HIV-infected individuals. The incidence of influenza-associated SARI was highest in children