Measles immunisation coverage

SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal description
«Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality. […] However, many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues. »

Swiss target 3.3: The high level reached in health protection and in the fight against communicable diseases is maintained.

Significance of the indicator
The indicator shows the percentage of two-year olds inoculated with two doses of measles vaccine. This is known as the “herd immunity rate” and if it is high enough, the disease can no longer spread and is completely eliminated. To enable all people to lead a healthy life, we must aim to increase this rate.

Help for interpretation
The herd immunity rate to be achieved is 95%.

International comparability
The indicator is not comparable at international level.