Richer and more developed nations appear to have a lower trust in immunisation than those in the developing world, a major new study has found.
As per survey, the people in Europe have the lowest levels of trust in vaccines.
The people living in high-income countries have the lowest confidence in vaccines, a result that ties in to the rise of the anti-vaccination movement, in which people refuse to believe in the benefits of vaccination or claim that the treatment is dangerous.
France has the lowest levels of confidence, as one third (33%) of people do not agree that immunisation is safe.
Globally, 79% of people agreed that vaccines are safe and 84% said they were effective.
Bangladesh and Rwanda had the highest levels of confidence in vaccines, with almost 100% in both countries agreeing they were safe, effective and important for children to have.
The spread of measles, including in the US, Philippines and Ukraine, is one of the health risks associated to low confidence in vaccines.
An estimated 169 million children missed out on the vital first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, according to a UN report issued in April, 2019.
