13.5m children miss vaccines in 2025 – WHO, UNICEF
5 million infants missed all routine vaccines in 2025, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF warned that conflict, poverty and vaccine hesitancy are slowing global immunisation progress, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases.
In contrast, Sudan recorded one of the world’s largest improvements after expanding access to vaccination services, increasing DTP coverage by 35 percentage points and measles vaccination by 22 percentage points despite the ongoing conflict.
The warning came Tuesday as the two agencies released the latest WHO-UNICEF Estimates of National Immunisation Coverage (WUENIC), showing that despite gains since the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination coverage remains below pre-pandemic levels.
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