Child Immunizations

In 1974 fewer than 5% of babies in developing eountries were immunised against major diseases. By 1990 global coverage for polio was 84% in those countries. Most dramatic were the gains in South Asia and Indonesia.

% immunized	Country	1987	1982

100	Bulgaria	1	5
99	Hungary	2	4
99	Iceland	2	3
98	Belgium	4	16
98	Czechoslovakia	4	9
98	Sweden	4	1
98	Switzerland	4	N/A
97	Denmark	8	6
97	France	8	33
97	Greece	8	19
97	United States	8	11
96.6	Hongkong	12	6
96.5	Mexico	13	26
96	Paraguay	14	79
95.5	Netherlands	15	10
95	Finland	16	28
95	Poland	16	12
95	West Germany	16	33
94.5	Singapore	19	27
94	Albania	20	20
94	East Germany	20	18
93	Israel	22	21
92.5	Cuba	23	24
92	Cyprus	24	72
91.5	Costa Rica	25	29
90.5	Chile	26	22
90	Austria	27	23
90	Romania	27	N/A
89.5	Brazil	29	1
89.5	Brunei	29	17
89.5	Yugoslavia	29	12
89	Jordan	32	41
89	Kuwait	32	32
88	Italy	34	N/A
87	Nicaragua	35	66
86.5	South Korea	36	37
86	Britain	37	39
86	Syria	37	93
85	Argentina	39	38
85	Canada	39	N/A
85	Mongolia	39	8
84.5	Bahrain	42	45
84	Mauritius	43	24
82.5	Iraq	44	95
82.5	Saudi Arabia	44	47
82	Fiji	46	46
82	Norway	46	N/A
81	Spain	48	N/A
80	Egypt	49	29
80	Portugal	49	88
80	FSU	49	12
79.5	New Zealand	52	N/A
79.5	Zimbabwe	52	70
79	Dominican Republic	54	64
79	Rwanda	54	91
78	Iran	56	50
78	Jamaica	56	59
77.5	China	58	33
76.5	Oman	59	90
76.5	Uruguay	59	44
75.5	Trinidad	61	53
75	Belize	62	35
75	Suriname	62	74
73.5	Colombia	64	83
73.5	Tunisia	64	62
73	Algeria	66	76
73	Tanzania	66	56
72.5	Panama	68	51
72	Guyana	69	53
72	Kenya	69	N/A
72	Qatar	69	58
67.5	Morocco	72	60
67	Malawi	73	67
67	Malaysia	73	42
66	North Korea	75	53
65.5	Venezuela	76	31
65	SriLanka	77	52
65	United Arab Emirates	77	73
63.5	ElSalvador	79	67
62.5	Philippines	80	57
62	Honduras	81	69
60.5	Lebanon	82	97
59.5	Vietnam	83	N/A
59	Botswana	84	40
59	Pakistan	84	110
58	Turkey	86	43
56	Micronesia	87	N/A
54	India	88	102
54	Solomon Islands	88	74
53.5	Gabon	90	N/A
52	Libya	91	48
51	Burundi	92	103
47.5	Peru	93	85
47	Ecuador	94	81
46.5	Thailand	95	77
45.5	Indonesia	96	118
43	Papua New Guinea	97	78
42	Guinea-Bissau	98	N/A
37.5	Nepal	99	112
35.5	Mozambique	100	71

Source: World Health Organization, 1992. Some countries that didn't make the list: Bhutan, 26%; Afghanistan, 18%; Burma, 8.5%; Laos, 7.5%; Bangladesh, 6%. In 1990 vaccinations prevented an estimated 445,000 cases of paralysis from polio. WHO aims to eradicate the disease by the year 2000.