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Vaccination Rates Are Stagnating
Data published last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF confirm that global vaccination coverage has stagnated in recent years. In 2024, 14.3 million children worldwide were classified as 'zero-dose', meaning they had not received a single vaccine. This number has barely changed over the past two years (14.5 million in 2022) and remains higher than the 12.8 million recorded in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted health services. More than half of these unvaccinated children live across around 30 countries currently affected by fragility, conflict or other vulnerabilities. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the following chart, the percentage of children who received three doses of the DTP vaccine (which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) stood at 85 percent in 2024. This is slightly below from the 86 percent reached between 2016 and 2019. You will find more infographics at Statista Vaccination rates for other diseases have also stagnated: polio coverage remained at 84 percent in 2024 (down from 86 percent between 2017 and 2019), and tuberculosis vaccination held steady at 88 percent (compared to a peak of 90 percent in 2017 and 2018). As for measles, global coverage improved significantly between 2004 and 2016 but has since slowed. In 2024, the global measles vaccination rate reached 76 percent, up from 71 percent in 2019, yet still well below the 95 percent threshold needed to effectively prevent outbreaks. According to the WHO, 60 countries experienced 'major or disruptive' measles outbreaks in 2024 – nearly double the number recorded in 2022. The primary reason for low vaccination coverage remains limited access to vaccines in certain regions. However, the WHO also highlights the growing threat posed by misinformation about science and vaccines. Also read: US Government Drops Charges Against Doctor Who Issued Fake COVID Vaccination Cards
Gulf Insider
05-07-2025
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Facebook Is Still The Most Important Social News Network
According to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, over half of under-35-year-olds in the United States now say that social media/video networks are their main source for accessing news, followed by TV and online news sites. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, among the 12 countries that the Reuters Institute has been tracking on this question since 2014, Facebook and YouTube are still the most important channels for news. Until 2022, Facebook had a reach of 30 percent of all surveyed respondents. This has dropped however to 26 percent, marking a 16 percentage point drop from its peak of 2016. At the same time, the share of those who consume news via Instagram and Tiktok has risen over recent years, driven by younger demographics. While just one percent of respondents used TikTok for news in 2020, this figure has recently increased to ten percent.
Gulf Insider
27-06-2025
- Politics
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Here's Where US Military Facilities Are In The Middle East
Amid a brief pause in proceedings between Iran and Israel, The Pentagon states that the U.S. currently has around 40,000 active-duty troops and Defense Department civilians stationed in the Middle East, with the largest U.S. military site in the region being Qatar's Al Udeid air base, where some 10,000 troops are stationed. As Statista;s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, according to data published by the Congressional Research Service, as of July 10, 2024, personnel were based across Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman. Qatar's Al Udeid air base is one of the eight so-called persistent U.S. military bases, which means that it has been continuously used by the U.S. Department of Defense for at least 15 years, with the U.S. military exercising at least some degree of operational control there. These permanent bases tend to be the DOD's largest and most well-known. Also marked on this infographic are 11 other selected U.S. military sites. According to the Congressional Research Service, these sites do not meet the persistent bases' criteria but are places where the DOD maintains some sort of territorially linked presence or access. This data is based on unclassified sources and does not include all facilities in the region, including temporary sites, which the U.S. military may use for exercises or contingency operations without planning on turning them into persistent sites. Also read: Indian Politician Calls For Bitcoin Reserve Pilot As US Embraces Crypto
Gulf Insider
21-06-2025
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Flying Fatalities Are Extremely Rare
Investigations into the cause of last week's deadly Air India plane crash are currently underway, with the cockpit voice recorder in the plane's second black box having now been recovered. All but one of the 242 people aboard the Air India 171 flight bound for London-Gatwick on June 12 were killed soon after it took off from India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad. At least 29 people on the ground also perished as the plane crashed into the campus of a medical college. Trainee doctors and students who were there at the time rushed to save their colleagues. Despite the heavy scrutiny Boeing has come under in the past year for the safety issues of its other planes, last week marked the first time a Boeing 787 has crashed in its 16-year history. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, according to data published by the World Bank and Our World in Data shows that while these disasters do happen, they are extremely rare and commercial aviation has become far safer over the decades. In 2023, there were 0.03 fatalities per million passengers, or in other words, three deaths per 100 million. According to this data, 2023 was the second safest year since records began, following only after 2017 when 0.01 deaths per million passengers were recorded.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Politics
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Hydropower Under Threat in Pakistan's Water Crisis
India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, a major water-sharing agreement brokered by the World Bank. The move came on April 23, within a day of a deadly shooting in Pahalgam, in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, marking the first time the treaty has been paused since the pact's inception in 1960. In response, Pakistan stated that an attempt to stop the flow of water would be considered an 'act of war'. Tensions mounted between the two nuclear-armed nations in the following weeks, breaking out into four days of fighting, before quelling again with a ceasefire mediated by the U.S. announced on Saturday, with both nations pulling back from the brink. Water resources are an important part of the equation right now between the two countries. The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) divides the six main rivers of the Indus basin between the two nations, with the three westerly rivers — Indus, Jhelum and Chenab — supplying Pakistan with water, while the three easterly ones — Ravi, Beas and Sutlej — feed India. According to reporting by ABC, in addition to the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, India has also fast-tracked the construction of four new hydropower projects on rivers flowing into Pakistan and refused to share data on river flows with Islamabad. David Michel, Senior Fellow for the Global Food and Water Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains in an analysis that while India cannot completely stop the water flow to Pakistan in the near term due to its current infrastructure, it can stop the flow of information to its neighbor. He explains: 'The IWT requires the parties to share a good deal of data on project development, river flows, and hydrological conditions. By suspending the treaty, India can also cease data sharing, depriving Pakistan of flood warnings, for example, prospectively hampering the nation's water management and potentially imperiling Pakistani lives and livelihoods.' Observers cite concerns over India's building of dams, including four which are on one of the westerly rivers intended to supply Pakistan, and flag the issue of what would happen to the flow of water to Pakistan if such infrastructure is expanded to enable more storage. Pakistan is dependent on the rivers of the Indus basin not only for some of its population's drinking water, but also for agriculture, which accounts for almost a quarter of the country's GDP, as well as for power. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, using data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows, 34.6 TWh of electricity in Pakistan was sourced from hydropower in 2022 (latest available data), all of which comes from the Indus basin. You will find more infographics at Statista This makes it the second most important energy source for electricity in the country, following only after natural gas (47 TWh or around 27 percent). The next biggest energy sources are oil (16.6 percent), coal (15.9 percent and nuclear (15.6 percent). By More Top Reads From this article on
