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WHO-UNICEF report 2024
July 19 , 2024
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- India has the second highest number of kids who did not receive any vaccine at all in 2023.
- India has 1.6 million, just after Nigeria with 2.1 million "zero dose children".
- The number of completely unvaccinated children ("zero-dose") is slightly up from last year (by 600,000 from 13.9 million to 14.5 million).
- This number is still 1.7 million higher than in 2019.
- The total number of un- and under-immunised children stands at 21 million in 2023, 2.7 million above the baseline value.
- India also had the third highest number of "measles zero dose children", 1.6 million.
- Nigeria with 2.8 million and Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 million children took the top spots.
- India was among ten countries accounting for 55% of children without measles vaccines globally.
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