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by mckirk 1705 days ago
I believe this is the graph you want: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccination-doses-p...

Yes, China is far ahead of India, but Cuba, the UAE and Urugay are far ahead of China.
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eynsham 1705 days ago
‘The world’s largest vaccine drive’ is pretty obviously not measured per capita, so no, that isn’t the chart I want quite obviously.
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freddie_mercury 1705 days ago
That's not an especially useful comparison, though. Cuba and the UAE combined are about the same population as Wuhan, which is a city nobody had even heard of 2 years ago.

Not to discount their success but small countries will always have an easier job than larger ones, since geographic and population scales make everything harder.

I'm pretty sure you can find municipalities of 10-20 million people in China that are more vaccinated that UAE or Cuba.

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mckirk 1705 days ago
It's a vastly more useful comparison than simply going by absolute numbers, though. A larger country will have more people to vaccinate, but also more infrastructure to get this done.

If you want to compare countries by how well they are able to vaccinate their population, doses-per-capita is exactly the measure you want.

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