General
How does Australia’s vaccination efforts compare with other Asia-Pacific countries?
While Australia has fallen significantly short on its deadline to vaccinate 4 million people by the end of March, millions of people have already been vaccinated in other Asia-Pacific countries, including China, Indonesia and India.
The number of vaccine doses administered per 100 people are higher in those countries too.
How did others in our region vaccinate so many people so quickly and how is Australia doing in comparison?
Who is ahead of us in the region?
According to Our World in Data, as of Friday Australia had provided about 5.1 vaccine doses per 100 people.
The country with the highest vaccination rate in the Asia-Pacific region – and by a long way – is Singapore (28.5 doses per 100 people) followed by China (12.5),…
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