WUENIC · HPV Vaccination Coverage, Girls
HPV vaccination coverage by country
What share of girls receive the full course of HPV vaccine?
Of the 158 countries compared in 2025, 3 countries shared the highest reading, 99%, and 2 countries shared the lowest reading, 1%. In the middle country the figure was 66%. Among the 73 countries measured in every edition since 2018, the middle one moved from 54% to 68%.
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HPV vaccination coverage · 2025
Context statistic
3 countries share the highest value, 99% — no single country is named first.
012025 · values only
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 158 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
Highest in 2025 · shared
3 countries share the highest reading, 99%
No single country is named first: picking one from a shared value would be a choice the data does not make.
Lowest in 2025
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
HPV vaccination coverage 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.
- 1–30%
- 32–57%
- 58–71%
- 72–85%
- 86–99%
- No reading in 2025 (2 measured in an earlier edition)
- Oceania
75%
the middle country, of 15 measured · 21 members
Niue99%
Nauru6%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Asia
68%
the middle country, of 32 measured · 52 members
Bhutan98%
Qatar1%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Americas
67%
the middle country, of 33 measured · 48 members
Cuba94%
Antigua and Barbuda1%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Africa
65%
the middle country, of 38 measured · 55 members
2 share 99%
2 share 3%
Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Europe
56%
the middle country, of 40 measured · 49 members
Portugal95%
Belarus2%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Every region
22 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Central Asia
91%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Turkmenistan97%
Kazakhstan45%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Polynesia
84%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 7 members
Niue99%
Tonga25%Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
- South-eastern Asia
82%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 11 members
Laos96%
Philippines5%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Southern Asia
79%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members
Bhutan98%
Bangladesh3%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Northern Europe
73%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
2 share 92%
Latvia54%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Central America
72%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Costa Rica83%
Guatemala63%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Eastern Africa
69%
the middle country, of 15 measured · 19 members
Tanzania99%
Djibouti10%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- South America
67%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 12 members
Chile92%
Suriname21%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Western Africa
66%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 16 members
Cabo Verde99%
Gambia33%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Western Europe
60%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg82%
Monaco16%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Southern Europe
52%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 17 members
Portugal95%
Serbia3%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Western Asia
45%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 19 members
Bahrain61%Qatar1%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Caribbean
43%
the middle country, of 12 measured · 24 members
Cuba94%Antigua and Barbuda1%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Micronesia
23%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 7 members
Kiribati91%Nauru6%Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.
- Eastern Europe
18%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 10 members
Hungary77%Belarus2%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia75%
New Zealand68%Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Eastern Asia
3 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Japan, Mongolia, South Korea.
South Korea68%
Japan30%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Melanesia
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Vanuatu80%
Fiji71%Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Middle Africa
3 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Angola, Cameroon, São Tomé and Príncipe.
São Tomé and Príncipe97%
Cameroon30%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Northern Africa
3 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Libya, Morocco, Tunisia.
Libya28%2 share 3%
Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada86%
United States51%Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Southern Africa
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa.
South Africa79%
Eswatini13%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
03The whole field at once
The spread
158 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 66%; a quarter are above 82%, and a quarter below 40%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 160 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. A country that has not introduced the vaccine has no figure at all — it is absent, not at zero. A recently started programme often reads very low and a catch-up campaign can push one year high, so the level reflects when and how a programme began as much as how well it runs. The estimates are whole percentages that stop at 99, so no position is derived.
Showing 25 of 160 countries
Values for 2025. The change column compares 2025 with 2024 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052018–2025 · 8 reference years
Over time
Each point is one year from 2018, the first year more than 80 countries had a programme. Every annual revision re-estimates the whole series, so earlier years can change, and a country's line begins only when its programme does.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 73 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | 66% | 40% – 82% | 68% |
| 2024 | 142 | 62% | 40% – 79% | 64% |
| 2023 | 134 | 53% | 33% – 74% | 58% |
| 2022 | 115 | 50% | 22% – 69% | 54% |
| 2021 | 105 | 43% | 26% – 66% | 51% |
| 2020 | 94 | 51% | 23% – 73% | 51% |
| 2019 | 89 | 55% | 34% – 71% | 58% |
| 2018 | 82 | 54% | 33% – 72% | 54% |
062024 → 2025
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions — reference years recalculated in one report, not two separate publications. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after
Sri Lanka12% → 74%+62
Togo36% → 87%+51
Mali15% → 64%+49
Seychelles23% → 67%+44
Zimbabwe51% → 90%+39
Declined most
before → after- Bangladesh90% → 3%−87
Timor-Leste99% → 40%−59- Tonga67% → 25%−42
Lesotho70% → 30%−40
Liberia71% → 34%−37
141 countries were measured in both 2024 and 2025. The field changed from 142 to 158 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
HPV vaccination coverage in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
Reached 16 times by 7 countries — shared, so no holder is named
99%
Girls in the target group given the final dose of HPV vaccine (%)
Lowest reading on record
Reached 6 times by 4 countries — shared, so no holder is named
0%
Girls in the target group given the final dose of HPV vaccine (%)
Biggest improvement between editions
+80
16% → 96%
Biggest decline between editions
−87
90% → 3%
Most improved since first measured
+80
19% → 99%
At the top most often
4 of 8
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About HPV vaccination coverage
This is the share of girls in the national target group who received the final scheduled dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine during the year. The vaccine prevents the infections behind most cervical cancer, which is why WHO counts vaccinating 90% of girls by age 15 as one of the three targets for eliminating the disease.
What the number is: Girls in the target group given the final dose of HPV vaccine (%).
09Where 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 HPV vaccination coverage is higher, these tend to be higher too.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Moves against
Where HPV vaccination coverage is higher, these tend to be lower.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 361 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
Explore further
The subject
The countries at either end
11Questions
HPV vaccination coverage: questions and answers
Which country has the highest HPV vaccination coverage?
3 countries share the highest reading, 99%, among the 158 compared in 2025, so no single country is named.
Which country has the lowest HPV vaccination coverage?
2 countries share the lowest reading, 1%, among the 158 compared in 2025, so no single country is named.
How many countries does the HPV Vaccination Coverage, Girls cover?
158 in 2025, and 160 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 82 to 158 between editions.
What is the world average HPV vaccination coverage?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 158 compared in 2025, the figure was 66%.
Is this WHO and UNICEF (WUENIC)’s own ranking?
No ranking is shown. WHO and UNICEF (WUENIC) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.
How often is the HPV Vaccination Coverage, Girls published?
This site holds 8 reference years, 2018–2025, all recalculated in WHO and UNICEF (WUENIC)’s 2025 report on one method — not 8 separate publications.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From WHO and UNICEF (WUENIC), under CC BY 3.0 IGO. From the WHO/UNICEF estimates of national HPV immunization coverage, read from UNICEF's data warehouse. WHO and UNICEF publish several HPV measures; this one is the final-dose coverage of girls in each programme's target group, and it differs from other HPV figures in circulation. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
HPV Vaccination Coverage, Girls — WHO and UNICEF (WUENIC)
From the WHO/UNICEF estimates of national HPV immunization coverage, read from UNICEF's data warehouse. WHO and UNICEF publish several HPV measures; this one is the final-dose coverage of girls in each programme's target group, and it differs from other HPV figures in circulation.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year 2025
Cite the source as: WHO and UNICEF. WHO/UNICEF Estimates of National HPV Immunization Coverage, 2025 revision. Geneva and New York: WHO and UNICEF.
Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO, checked 2026-10-03.
How this page reads the numbers
- No rank or position is shown: WHO and UNICEF (WUENIC) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
- 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.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). HPV vaccination coverage by country: HPV Vaccination Coverage, Girls, data from WHO and UNICEF (WUENIC). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/hpv-vaccination