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Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered

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What you should know about this indicator

  • Vaccination data reflects the total number of doses administered—covering both primary series and booster doses—and are now sourced exclusively from WHO.
  • Rapid vaccine development and ongoing updates for emerging variants underline the dynamic nature of COVID-19 vaccination efforts globally.
  • Coverage statistics can exceed 100% if population estimates do not keep pace with migration or demographic changes, leading to inaccuracies in denominators. Also, we rely on population estimates in 2022 by UN WPP.
Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered
Total number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered.
Source
Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024); World Health Organisation (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
August 14, 2024
Unit
doses

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Official data collated by Our World in Data – COVID-19, vaccinations

Country-by-country data on global COVID-19 vaccinations. We only rely on figures that are verifiable based on public official sources.

This dataset includes some subnational locations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Northern Cyprus…) and international aggregates (World, continents, European Union…).

The data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors. We will always indicate the original source of the data in our database, and you should always check the license of any such third-party data before use.

Retrieved on
August 14, 2024
Retrieved from
https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Mathieu, E., Ritchie, H., Ortiz-Ospina, E. et al. A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations. Nat Hum Behav (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01122-8
The data has been obtained from different sources depending on the country. Find below a list of the sources last use for each country. Note that this list may not be exhaustive and that the data sources may have changed prior to the last update (find the complete list on Our World in Data GitHub repository).

Country-by-country data on global COVID-19 vaccinations. We only rely on figures that are verifiable based on public official sources.

This dataset includes some subnational locations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Northern Cyprus…) and international aggregates (World, continents, European Union…).

The data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors. We will always indicate the original source of the data in our database, and you should always check the license of any such third-party data before use.

Retrieved on
August 14, 2024
Retrieved from
https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Mathieu, E., Ritchie, H., Ortiz-Ospina, E. et al. A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations. Nat Hum Behav (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01122-8
The data has been obtained from different sources depending on the country. Find below a list of the sources last use for each country. Note that this list may not be exhaustive and that the data sources may have changed prior to the last update (find the complete list on Our World in Data GitHub repository).

World Health Organisation – COVID-19, vaccinations (WHO)

COVID-19 vaccination data are collected via WHO regional office-specific systems for monitoring COVID-19 vaccination uptake. These data are pooled from numerous sources, including direct reports from Member States, WHO review of publicly available official data, or data collated and published by third-party sites. Data published by third-party sites have not been validated by WHO, and WHO cannot comment on accuracy or completeness. Differences in counts may occur compared to other sources, due to different inclusion criteria and data cut-off times.

Retrieved on
August 14, 2024
Retrieved from
https://covid19.who.int/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
WHO COVID-19 Dashboard. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2020. Available online: https://covid19.who.int/

COVID-19 vaccination data are collected via WHO regional office-specific systems for monitoring COVID-19 vaccination uptake. These data are pooled from numerous sources, including direct reports from Member States, WHO review of publicly available official data, or data collated and published by third-party sites. Data published by third-party sites have not been validated by WHO, and WHO cannot comment on accuracy or completeness. Differences in counts may occur compared to other sources, due to different inclusion criteria and data cut-off times.

Retrieved on
August 14, 2024
Retrieved from
https://covid19.who.int/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
WHO COVID-19 Dashboard. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2020. Available online: https://covid19.who.int/

How we process data at Our World in Data

All data and visualizations on Our World in Data rely on data sourced from one or several original data providers. Preparing this original data involves several processing steps. Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived indicators such as per capita measures, as well as adding or adapting metadata such as the name or the description given to an indicator.

At the link below you can find a detailed description of the structure of our data pipeline, including links to all the code used to prepare data across Our World in Data.

Read about our data pipeline

Reuse this work

  • All data produced by third-party providers and made available by Our World in Data are subject to the license terms from the original providers. Our work would not be possible without the data providers we rely on, so we ask you to always cite them appropriately (see below). This is crucial to allow data providers to continue doing their work, enhancing, maintaining and updating valuable data.
  • All data, visualizations, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have the permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.

Citations

How to cite this page

To cite this page overall, including any descriptions, FAQs or explanations of the data authored by Our World in Data, please use the following citation:

“Data Page: Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered”, part of the following publication: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser (2020) - “COVID-19 Pandemic”. Data adapted from Official data collated by Our World in Data, World Health Organisation. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.html [online resource] (archived on March 4, 2026).

How to cite this data

In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:

Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024); World Health Organisation (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data

Full citation

Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024); World Health Organisation (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered” [dataset]. Official data collated by Our World in Data, “COVID-19, vaccinations”; World Health Organisation, “COVID-19, vaccinations (WHO)” [original data]. Retrieved March 31, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.html (archived on March 4, 2026).

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Data URL (CSV format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false
Metadata URL (JSON format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false

Code examples

Examples of how to load this data into different data analysis tools.

Excel / Google Sheets
=IMPORTDATA("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Python with Pandas
import pandas as pd
import requests

# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})

# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false").json()
R
library(jsonlite)

# Fetch the data
df <- read.csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")

# Fetch the metadata
metadata <- fromJSON("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Stata
import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear