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14 million children did not receive a single vaccine in 2024, UN estimates

UNITED STATES, JUL 15 – Funding cuts, misinformation, and conflict have stalled vaccination progress, leaving 14.3 million children unvaccinated—4 million above the 2024 target, WHO and UNICEF reported.

  • On July 15, 2025, the United Nations disclosed that over 14 million children worldwide had not received any vaccinations throughout 2024.
  • This situation results from widespread misinformation about vaccine safety and severe international aid cuts disrupting immunization programs.
  • Global vaccine coverage rose modestly to 85% for the three-dose DTP vaccine, but coverage remains deeply unequal with nine countries accounting for over half of unvaccinated children.
  • WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that significant reductions in funding, along with false information regarding vaccine safety, risk reversing years of achievements in public health.
  • The report suggests that unless funding and trust improve, millions of children will continue facing risks from preventable diseases amid measles and whooping cough outbreaks worldwide.
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More than 14M children globally have not received a dose of any vaccine: WHO

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 14 million children around the world have not received a single dose of any vaccine, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. This is 4 million more children than the 2024 target set by the WHO and 1.4 million more children than in 2019, which is the baseline year for measuring progress. About 25% of the world’s infants live in 26 countries that are affected by con…

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