Chart of the Day: Singapore leads in vaccination rate in Asia

81% of the adult population in Singapore have been fully vaccinated.

This chart from Moody’s Analytics showed that there is a wide variation of vaccination rates in Asia, with Singapore leading in the region with 81% of its adult population fully vaccinated and 7% partially vaccinated.

Moody’s said the current pace of vaccinations across the region “does not bode well for much of Southeast Asia” as all countries have low vaccination rates except for Singapore, Cambodia, and Malaysia.

Vietnam, with 2% fully vaccinated and 16% partially vaccinated, and Myanmar with 4% fully vaccinated adults and 1% partially vaccinated, are lagging in vaccination. 

It noted that vaccination rates do not provide a complete picture of the remaining risks from COVID-19 as “vaccination rate does not always correlate well to the incidence of the virus or the death rate.”

It cited, as an example, Cambodia which still has a high current seven-day average of new cases despite a very high vaccination rate.

Moody’s said there could be many reasons for this, such as the efficacy of the vaccine, geographic distribution, or the age cohorts of the population that have or not have been vaccinated.

“Similarly, death rates may vary across the countries of the APAC region, due in part to quality and availability of care. Of course, one must also recognise that the quality of the data may vary from one country to another,” it said.