2026-08-23 · infants born per year
One in ten infants miss basic vaccines
DTP3 coverage is a proxy for routine immunization systems worldwide.
Every infant who misses DTP3 — three doses against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis — is left exposed to diseases that can disable or kill, and the gap signals a health system failing to reach newborns. This grid splits the world's roughly 140 million annual births: 84% received all three doses, 16% did not. About one in ten — 13.5 million children — got no vaccine at all.
1 cell = 140 thousand infants born per year (0.1% of annual births) · 1,000 cells
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The shortfall is heavily concentrated: of the nearly 20 million un- and under-vaccinated children, around 53% live in just ten countries — Afghanistan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Yemen.
WHO/UNICEF estimates show global coverage holding steady since 2024, a plateau that leaves Immunization Agenda 2030 targets slipping. Measles acts as an early warning for immunity gaps: nearly 21 million children missed their first dose, worse than the 19 million of 2019.
Beyond the 13.5 million zero-dose children, another 6 million started but never finished their DTP doses, and the global averages mask wide disparities, with low-income countries lagging furthest behind.
WHO / UNICEF immunization coverage estimates.
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