The United States accounts for 14% of all Covid-19 vaccine doses administered around the world, a figure vastly disproportionate to its 4% share of the globe’s population and greater than the total number of shots reportedly given in more than 173 countries and other territories combined, highlighting the stark inequities when it comes to fighting the pandemic that experts and officials warn will promote the emergence of new variants and allow the virus to keep spreading for longer.
The U.S. has used some 301 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines in its immunization program, enough to give more than half of its population at least one dose, with a good number having gone to low-risk adults or children. American usage exceeds that of 173 of the world’s least vaccinated countries , according to data collated by Our World In Data and analyzed by, including some of the world’s most populous countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Nigeria and Ethiopia, alongside other entities like Hong Kong, Palestine and Taiwan. Chad, Haiti, Tanzania, Burundi and Eritrea, while Burkina Faso, which has a population of around 20 million, reports 200 immunizations.
Experts and officials have repeatedly called on wealthy nations to help other countries in battling the pandemic and World Health Organization head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus