COVID-19: GLOBAL VACCINE INEQUALITY &

THE EFFECT OF NATIONAL AGING POPULATION PROPORTION

All people deserve the opportunity to receive a vaccine. However, the majority of Covid-19 vaccine doses
have been rolled out in a small number of countries; while many have yet to deliver a single dose.
At the same time, how does the national aging population proportion affect the status quo?

RESEARCH QUESTION 1 RESEARCH QUESTION 2

IS THERE GLOBAL INEQUALITY IN DOES THE NATIONAL PROPORTION OF POPULATION
COVID-19 VACCINE DISTRIBUTION? OVER 65 AFFECT THE VACCINE DISTRIBUTION?

METHOD METHOD
The average GDP per capita of each How do we define young & old countries? Result from the Shapiro test
20,423 USD
country in 2022 Based on the quantiles of the shows that the data is not normal
Result from the Shapiro test shows that the data is not proportion of population over 65 → Use Mann-Whitney test
→
normal Use Mann-Whitney test
NULL HYPOTHESIS: There is no significant difference in the NULL HYPOTHESIS: There are no
number of vaccines distributed to countries whose GDP Young countries Old countries obvious differences in the
per capita is less than 20,423 USD compared with those vaccine distribution between
larger than 20,423 USD.
30th 70th young and old countries.

RESULT RESULT
P-value 4.482e-11 P-value 8.282e-13

Gini coefficient Distribution curve of vaccine distribution in young & old countries

0.4

the global
inequity of
getting
access to
Covid-19
vaccination

The curve of vaccine distribution in young countries is on the left side

→
of that of old countries the inequality in vaccine distribution
between these two.

CONCLUSION Even in the young country group, most of them are distributed very
little amount of vaccine as the curve heavily skewed to the left.

Both P-values 0.05

LIMITATION
REJECT THE HYPOTHESES
The data collected for the test
among high and low GDP (research question 2) A probability that the data between
INEQUALITY IN
per capita countries 30th quantiles the 30th and 70th quantiles would
GLOBAL VACCINE
between young and old not behave the same way.
DISTRIBUTION countries
70th quantiles

Why older countries
have greater access to
Covid-19 vaccine than
young ones?
DISCUSSION
Older countries are usually rich because in developed countries, Countries that have a large
families have fewer children, but people tend to live longer as a number of old people are more
consequence of the prosperity. Therefore, the governments can privileged in the vaccine
likely purchase more vaccines for their people compared to the approach due to COVAX policy.
young countries as well as invest to self-produce the vaccine.

REFERENCES
GDP per capita by country 2022. (n.d.): https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gdp-per-capita-by-country
Why is vaccine equity important? (n.d.): https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/what-is-vaccine-equity