Measles vaccination has saved 94 million lives globally since 1974. Of those, 92 million were children.
The chart shows the number of lives saved by different childhood vaccines in the last 50 years. These estimates come from Andrew Shattock and colleagues and are based on global data on diseases, causes of death, vaccination rates, and vaccine efficacy.
Measles vaccines rank the highest in the total number of lives saved.
Measles is especially contagious and deadly. The virus depletes immune cells, making it harder to fight off measles and making other infections much more life-threatening. It can also erase immune memory to infections and vaccines that children have already encountered.
Before vaccines, almost all children caught measles, and it was a common cause of disability and death. With high measles vaccination rates, millions of lives are saved globally each year.
Read more in our article about the impact of global vaccination →
Where this page came from
This page was imported from Our World in Data. “Measles vaccines have saved over 90 million lives in the last 50 years” by Saloni Dattani, published by Our World in Data under CC BY 4.0. Changed here: set as a page, its interactive charts shown as pictures. Data from third parties keeps its own licence.
Nobody has written it yet — it is the source material at a new address, which is why search engines are asked to skip it and why no one earns from it. It is up for grabs: take it on, and it is yours to rewrite and to earn from.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 · Adapted from ourworldindata.org
1
0
0
0
Comments
