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Vaccine Gap Ranks
June 29 , 2025
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- India had 1.44 million “zero-dose” children in 2023, second only to Nigeria’s 2.5 million.
- “Zero-dose” children are those who have not received even one routine childhood vaccine.
- These children are mostly concentrated in eight countries.
- These 8 together account for over 50% of the global burden.
- The data comes from a new Lancet study using the Global Burden of Disease estimates.
- India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) covers 12 diseases, but gaps in coverage remain.
- Globally, the number of zero-dose children dropped from 58.8 million in 1980 to 14.7 million in 2019.
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