Key Points

• Continued increase in vaccination uptake among infants born on or after January 1, 2018, for whom the expanded vaccination requirement applies:

  • +1.9 percentage points for the use of the hexavalent vaccine between 2018 and 2020 (cohort of children born in 2020: 99.6%)

  • +0.1 percentage points in vaccination coverage for the first dose of the pneumococcal vaccine between 2018 and 2020 (cohort of children born in 2020: 99.8%)

  • + 12.6 percentage points in vaccination coverage for the first dose of the meningococcal C vaccine between 2018 and 2020 (cohort of children born in 2020: 89.5%)

• Increase in vaccination coverage among children born before the law took effect

  • +5.6 percentage points for the first dose of the HPV vaccine among 15-year-old girls born in 2005 (48.2%) compared to girls born in 2004 (42.6%)

  • Increase in catch-up vaccination coverage for meningococcal C in all age groups

• Increase in influenza vaccination coverage

  • +8.4 percentage points among people aged 65 and older