Around 83 million people live in Germany. More than half of them, almost 48 million, have now received at least one vaccination against the corona virus. So there are still 35 million missing. Who are the unvaccinated?
Children and adolescents: According to the Federal Statistical Office, about 13.7 million people under the age of 18 in Germany, 16.5 percent of the total population. Four percent of them were vaccinated at least once on July 8, 2021, 96 percent or around 13.2 million not yet. The number of those under the age of twelve is again around ten million. No corona vaccine has yet been approved for them. About to stay without them 3.2 million minors theoretically eligible for vaccination. When deciding on your immunization, the fact that the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) has not (yet) made a general vaccination recommendation for you should be very important.
Seven million vaccine skeptics?
People unwilling to vaccinate: Remaining without minors – as of now – again around 21 million adults who have not been vaccinated above. Among them, the RKI regularly conducts representative surveys on willingness to be vaccinated. A total of almost 17 percent of those who were not vaccinated recently stated that they “definitely not” or “probably not” want to be vaccinated. Extrapolated, that would currently be around 3.6 million people. Around 16 percent of those surveyed (around 3.4 million extrapolated) said they were “undecided”. So that makes seven million people. Admittedly, that is very theoretical. It remains to be seen how many people who are unwilling to vaccinate in the end. But if you take the extrapolated seven million suspected vaccine reluctants and skeptics of the 21 million mentioned above, remain 14 million as yet unvaccinated adults over, almost twelve percent of the total German population. As hundreds of thousands of syringes are currently being used every day, their number continues to decline.
But it will presumably not land at zero. Because: There are also people who are advised against vaccination for health reasons. In addition, some groups are considered difficult to reach for a vaccination offer, for example people in certain professions (e.g. employees in the meat industry, in parcel services, in local public transport, in the construction industry, in the cleaning industry and also sex workers), long-term patients in psychiatric care Hospitals and residents of socially disadvantaged districts. However, it is difficult to quantify their number precisely.
