Wellcome Trust · Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe
Confidence that vaccines are safe by country
What share of people agree that vaccines are safe?
Bangladesh placed first of the 144 countries compared in 2018, at 97.908%, and Ukraine last, at 29.285%. In the middle country the figure was 77.654%.
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Confidence that vaccines are safe · 2018
Context statistic
Highest of 144Bangladesh
97.908%012018 · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 144 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Niaz morshed Shovon · Public domain, greyscale
2Photo: Rudolph.A.furtado · CC0, greyscale
3Photo: Bernard Gagnon derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
02Every measured country
Confidence that vaccines are safe on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 29.285–64.043%
- 65.211–74.196%
- 74.220–81.803%
- 81.941–88.972%
- 89.177–97.908%
- No reading in 2018
- Asia
84.219%
the middle country, of 41 measured · 52 members
Bangladesh97.908%
Japan33.993%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Africa
82.061%
the middle country, of 40 measured · 55 members
Egypt97.154%
Togo51.166%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Americas
81.941%
the middle country, of 21 measured · 48 members
Nicaragua92.875%
Peru70.203%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Europe
66.557%
the middle country, of 40 measured · 49 members
Norway83.206%
Ukraine29.285%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Oceania
2 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia83.330%
New Zealand72.107%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
19 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Southern Asia
92.117%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Bangladesh97.908%
Iran68.516%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Eastern Africa
89.234%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 19 members
Ethiopia96.128%
Mauritius62.937%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- South-eastern Asia
87.603%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 11 members
Thailand92.580%
Vietnam70.844%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Central America
87.264%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 8 members
Nicaragua92.875%
El Salvador77.962%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Central Asia
85.730%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Uzbekistan92.346%
Kazakhstan45.718%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Western Asia
83.693%
the middle country, of 15 measured · 19 members
Jordan91.989%
Armenia42.016%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Western Africa
80.043%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 16 members
Liberia96.013%Togo51.166%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- South America
78.850%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 12 members
Venezuela92.221%Peru70.203%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Northern Africa
77.254%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 6 members
Egypt97.154%
Algeria63.020%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Southern Europe
70.284%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 17 members
Portugal80.766%
Montenegro44.352%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Northern Europe
69.812%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Norway83.206%
Latvia45.457%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Western Europe
62.710%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg70.826%
France47.036%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Eastern Asia
56.604%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 8 members
Mongolia74.437%Japan33.993%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
54.338%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Poland77.590%Ukraine29.285%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia83.330%New Zealand72.107%Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Caribbean
2 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Dominican Republic, Haiti.
Dominican Republic89.441%
Haiti71.629%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Middle Africa
4 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, Republic of the Congo.
Chad81.138%
Gabon62.648%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada76.438%
United States72.091%Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Southern Africa
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa.
Namibia83.542%
Eswatini75.580%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
03The whole field at once
The spread
144 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 77.654%; a quarter are above 87.204%, and a quarter below 68.393%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 144 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a position shared with another country. Wellcome Trust ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. This measures an opinion, not how safe a country's vaccines are or how many children receive them. Some countries with high vaccination rates, Japan and France among them, sit low in this table, and confidence is often highest where vaccine-preventable diseases are still common. The top of the table is crowded, and neighbouring countries there are closer together than a survey of this size can separate.
Showing 25 of 144 countries
Values for 2018.
05In this edition
Confidence that vaccines are safe in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
97.908%
People aged 15+ who agree that vaccines are safe (% of those who had heard of vaccines)
Lowest reading
29.285%
People aged 15+ who agree that vaccines are safe (% of those who had heard of vaccines)
06The measure
About confidence that vaccines are safe
This is the share of people who agree that vaccines are safe, from the Wellcome Global Monitor — a survey of about a thousand people in each of 144 countries, carried out by Gallup for the Wellcome Trust in 2018. It is the widest cross-country measure of public confidence in vaccines, which matters because confidence shapes whether parents choose to vaccinate their children.
What the number is: People aged 15+ who agree that vaccines are safe (% of those who had heard of vaccines).
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Health & Wellbeing, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Moves with
Where confidence that vaccines are safe is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Learning PovertyWorld Bank Group and UNESCO Institute for Statistics · 100 countries in commonρ 0.59
- Coefficient of Human InequalityUNDP Human Development Report Office · 135 countries in commonρ 0.57
- Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and TubersFAO · 134 countries in commonρ 0.56
Moves against
Where confidence that vaccines are safe is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Upper Secondary AttainmentUIS · 80 countries in commonρ −0.67
- Ecological FootprintKeyGlobal Footprint Network · 106 countries in commonρ −0.64
- Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of PrimaryUIS · 94 countries in commonρ −0.62
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 360 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
08Keep reading
Explore further
The subject
The data, edition by edition
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09Questions
Confidence that vaccines are safe: questions and answers
Which country has the highest confidence that vaccines are safe?
Bangladesh, at 97.908%, among the 144 countries compared in 2018.
Which country has the lowest confidence that vaccines are safe?
Ukraine, at 29.285%, among the 144 countries compared in 2018.
How many countries does the Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe cover?
144 in 2018.
What is the world average confidence that vaccines are safe?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 144 compared in 2018, the figure was 77.654%.
Is this Wellcome Trust’s own ranking?
No. Wellcome Trust publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2018.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From Wellcome Trust, under CC BY 4.0. 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. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe — Wellcome Trust
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.
Newest edition
Report year 2018Data year 2018
Cite the source as: Wellcome Trust. Wellcome Global Monitor 2018: How does the world feel about science and health? London: Wellcome, 2019.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-29.
How this page reads the numbers
- Wellcome Trust ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Bangladesh — Niaz morshed Shovon, Public domain
- Egypt — Rudolph.A.furtado, CC0
- Ethiopia — Bernard Gagnon derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Confidence that vaccines are safe by country: Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe, data from Wellcome Trust. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/vaccine-safety-agreement