BCG Vaccination Coverage for Live Births from UNICEF

Percentage data for live births receiving the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis. The dataset is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) and was last updated on March 26, 2026. It is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Modeling national and sub-national BCG vaccination coverage trends based on the reported percentage metric.
• Benchmarking tuberculosis immunization performance across regions based on the live birth cohort data.
• Integrating with other child health indicators for multi-disease prevention analysis based on the vaccination focus.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), an authoritative source for child health indicators.
• Dataset was last updated on March 26, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and geographic/temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Collection Method

Aggregated from national reporting systems, likely.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:48:58.689722; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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