Mapping the Global Landscape of Vaccine Acceptance Among the General Population from 2009 to 2024: A Systematic Review Across COVID-19 Pandemic Phases, Vaccine Categories, and Economic Strata
Madan Khatiwada, Yu-Tan Chen, Carine Dochez, Peter Delputte · 2026
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Madan Khatiwada, Yu-Tan Chen, Carine Dochez, and Peter Delputte pool fifteen years of vaccine-acceptance research in a 2026 systematic review. Willingness to vaccinate drives real uptake, and the pandemic scrambled public mood. The team merged 264 studies covering over six hundred fifty thousand people in ninety-seven countries, spanning 2009 to 2024 and split by vaccine type, region, income level, and pandemic phase.
Overall acceptance sat near seventy-one percent and barely moved across the whole period. Childhood shots won the most trust at about eighty percent, HPV vaccines sat mid-range, and flu shots trailed at fifty-two. Acceptance ran higher in African and South-East Asian samples than in European and Western Pacific ones, and richer settings showed more hesitancy. Childhood acceptance even rose during COVID-19, while HPV and flu slipped. Khatiwada's team urges shared measuring tools and far more evidence from underrepresented regions.
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| CREATOR | Madan Khatiwada, Yu-Tan Chen, Carine Dochez, Peter Delputte |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |