New Vaccinations per Million, Smoothed
February 23, 2022
Data thru February 22, 2022, unless otherwise noted on chart.
The charts below show the new COVID-19 vaccination doses administered per 1,000,000 people in the total population of each (select) country where data is available.
The United States was one of the leaders in this category last spring but it has fallen since summer. As a wealthy country, we were fortunate to have early access to the vaccine. If the U.S. was a leader in this metric last spring and most people received the vaccine it would be natural that vaccination rates might be dropping. Canada’s rate curve shows this phenomena.
But only approximately half of the U.S. population has been vaccinated and the key reason for this is resistance among the unvaccinated. Since July, vaccination rates in the U.S. have been rebounding and increasing, albeit at a relatively mild pace.
DATA SOURCES:
Data for these charts was provided, downloaded and used from Our World in Data (OWID), Oxford University and is used under a Creative Common CC-BY license granted by OWID.