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Progress towards polio eradication

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About this data

Progress towards polio eradication
The status of a country in terms of polio eradication.
Source
Global Polio Eradication Initiative (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
April 12, 2024
Next expected update
April 2025
Date range
1910–2023

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Polio

Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Sophie Ochmann and Max Roser

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

This dataset shows the last recorded case of indigenous wild poliovirus (WPV) by country. As data methodology and quality varied widely across regions and countries in earlier years, this table is based on the best-available sources for the years before 2000.

Retrieved on
April 12, 2024
Retrieved from
https://polioeradication.org/where-we-work/polio-free-countries/
Citation
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Global Polio Eradication Initiative (2023)

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“Data Page: Progress towards polio eradication”, part of the following publication: Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2016) - “Global Health”. Data adapted from Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/progress-towards-polio-eradication [online resource]
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Global Polio Eradication Initiative (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data

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Global Polio Eradication Initiative (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Progress towards polio eradication” [dataset]. Global Polio Eradication Initiative, “Polio-Free Countries” [original data]. Retrieved December 15, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/progress-towards-polio-eradication