More than three billion doses of vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to a count carried out today, Tuesday, June 29, by the Agency France-Presse (AFP) from official sources, at 10:00am local time.
Although the first 1,000 million inoculated doses were reached 20 weeks after the start of the first mass vaccination campaigns in December, and the two billion in six weeks, the 3,000 million doses administered took less than four weeks.
About 40% of doses administered worldwide (1.2 billion) were in China, while India (329 million) and the United States (324 million) closed the podium.
In terms of population, among countries with more than one million inhabitants, the champions of vaccination are found in the Middle East: United Arab Emirates (153 doses per 100 inhabitants), Bahrain (124) and Israel (124), are countries that approach or have already surpassed the 60% barrier of the fully immunized population.
Chile (118 doses per 100 inhabitants), the United Kingdom (113), Mongolia (111), Uruguay (110), Hungary (107), Qatar (107) and the United States (98), are countries that have fully immunized about half of the population (between 46% and 54%).
The European Union has administered 357 million doses to 50% of it population.
About 32% of the inhabitants of the community bloc are advance, with Malta, the smallest country in the Union, by far the most advanced, with more than 70% of the population fully vaccinated.