

To track this effort we at Our World in Data are building the international vaccination dataset that we make available on this page. It will be key that people in all countries - not just in rich countries - receive the required protection. Now the challenge is to make these vaccines available to people around the world. Within less than 12 months after the beginning of the pandemic, several research teams rose to the challenge and developed vaccines that protect from SARS-CoV-2. Vaccines are a technology that humanity has often relied on in the past to bring down the death toll of infectious diseases. The safest way to achieve this is with a vaccine.

To bring this pandemic to an end, a large share of the world needs to be immune to the virus. The Our World in Data COVID vaccination data
