Most Latin American countries exceed the global average for covid-19 vaccination

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(CNN Spanish) - 

As much of Europe faces a new wave of infections, Latin American governments are making an effort to boost their vaccination campaigns against covid-19.

Most Latin American countries exceed the global vaccination rate (53.3%) with at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine, according to figures from Our World In Data.

But some are still below 40%.

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Here we present the figures from Our World In Data with a cut-off date of November 21 (some countries, such as Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, among others, have figures from previous cut-off dates, according to the data available for the early morning of the Monday, November 22):

• Cuba 89.48%

• Chile 87.38%

• Uruguay 79.65%

• Argentina 79.17%

• Brazil 75.91%

• Costa Rica 74.36%

• Ecuador 74.25%

• Panama 68.43%

• Colombia 67.67%

• El Salvador 67.48%

• Peru 64.93%

• Dominican Republic 62.48%

• Mexico 58.23%

• Belize 55.82%

• World average 53.30%

• Guyana 49.95%

• Venezuela 48.28%

• Paraguay 45.42%

• Suriname 43.19%

• Honduras 39.63%

• Bolivia 39.62%

• Guatemala 31.26%

• Nicaragua 18.64%

• Haiti 0.93%

At the regional level, South America has an average partial vaccination rate of 71.44% and North America of 63.36%.

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By way of comparison with the vaccination rates in Latin American countries, Spain has a rate of 81.74%, the United States of 68.48% and South Africa of 27.73%.

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Editor's Note:

Our World In Data specifies that its "vaccination dataset uses the most recent official figures from governments and Ministries of Health around the world. Population estimates for per capita metrics are based on Population Outlook United Nations World Cup ".

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