Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: vaccine-safety-agreement-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2018	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	144	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	144	0
Agree that vaccines are safe (%)vaccine_safety_agreementHeadline	The headline figure: People aged 15+ who agree that vaccines are safe (% of those who had heard of vaccines).	Number · up to 15 decimals	29.285Ukraine97.908Bangladeshmiddle 77.654	144	0
Strongly agree (%)strongly_agreeMeasure	Wellcome’s published share who strongly agree that vaccines are safe, as a percentage; one of the two parts of the headline.	Number · up to 15 decimals	8.5956Japan94.4552Bangladeshmiddle 59.3389	144	0
Somewhat agree (%)somewhat_agreeMeasure	Wellcome’s published share who somewhat agree that vaccines are safe, as a percentage; the headline is this plus the strongly-agree share.	Number · up to 16 decimals	1.968Turkmenistan36.988Finlandmiddle 16.933	144	0
Respondents askedrespondentsMeasure	How many people were asked the question — those who had heard of vaccines — before weighting.	Number · whole numbers	391Haiti3,168Chinamiddle 923	113	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

One year, covering 144 countries.

Not in this dataset · 81 places this site covers

Wellcome Trust gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelizeBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaHong KongIsle of ManJamaicaKiribatiLesothoLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSurinameSyriaTimor-LesteTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Wellcome Trust

   wellcome.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Wellcome Global Monitor 2018 — agreement that vaccines are safe

   wgm2018-dataset-crosstabs-all-countries.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per year

   It downloads as a CSV: vaccine-safety-agreement-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/vaccine-safety-agreement

From Wellcome's own crosstab workbook for the 2018 Monitor. Wellcome publishes 'strongly agree' and 'somewhat agree' separately; the figure here is their exact sum, calculated by this site, and both parts are in the downloadable file. Shares are of people who said they had heard of vaccines.

• Charted

  Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing

• Near neighbours

  • Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
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