Childhood vaccinations : Trend in percentage of infants vaccinated against hepatitis B in EU-27, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, 1990-2005

Trend in percentage of infants reaching their first birthday in the given year who have been fully vaccinated against hepatitis B in Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the EU-27, 1990-2005 (source: WHO-HFA, 2007)

	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Austria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	34	33	44	81	83	83	92
Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	31	49	60	60	60	65	65	1
Bulgaria	-	92	71	96	94	95	94	77	97	97	94	93	88	96	94	96
Cyprus	-	20	20	20	68	68	68	88	88	88	89	89	89	88	88	88
Czech Republic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	86	67	98	99
Estonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	90	34	96	90	95
France	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	28	24	26	28	29	28	28	-
Germany	-	-	-	15	32	45	8	11	15	32	45	57	71	81	81	84
Greece	-	10	15	2	2	12	12	50	69	88	88	88	88	88	88	-
Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	99	100	100	-	-	-	-
Italy	50	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	94	94	94	97	97	95	92
Latvia	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	6	9	94	95	96	98	98	100	98
Lithuania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	98	99	95	94	95	94	95
Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	49	49	49	49	49	49	49	49	95
Malta	-	-	-	-	90	-	75	-	78	82	3	3	72	70	8	78
Poland	-	1	1	1	4	23	56	97	99	99	99	95	98	98	98	98
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	6	34	49	64	64	58	98	97	94	94	94
Romania	-	-	-	-	97	-	99	99	99	99	98	98	99	99	99	99
Slovakia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	99	99	99	99	99	99	99
Slovenia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	95	97	97	95	95	-	-
Spain	-	-	-	-	-	-	82	84	81	80	77	83	83	83	97	96
Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1
Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
EU-15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	46	52	56	63	68	71	73	-
EU-27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	58	64	67	71	75	77	79	78

- : no data available

Countries for which data are not available are not shown.

Remarks

Hepatitis B: percentage of infants reaching their first birthday in the given calendar year who have been fully vaccinated against hepatitis B. Data are reported annually to and available from the CD-unit at WHO-Europe.

The number of countries with universal immunization of neonates and infants has increased. In 2003 Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithouania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain targeted newborn babies or infants.

Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg (if not vaccinated as child) and Slovenia targeted older children or adolescents.

Germany, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK, Iceland and Danmark have not introduced universal immunization against hepatitis B. These countries have very low endemicity and consider hepatitis B to be a limited public health problem, thus not justifying additional expense. These countries choose to provide hepatitis B vaccine only to well-defined risk groups, in addition to screening pregnant women to identify and immunize neonates exposed to hepatitis B infection (WHO Vaccine Preventable Diseases Monitoring System, 2007; WHO, 2006b).