“Figures released by UNICEF indicate that Burundi’s under-five mortality rates have significantly declined, from 143 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2002, to 50 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022. UNICEF and World Health Organization statistics, meanwhile, show that Burundi’s immunisation coverage – using coverage with the third dose of the basic diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus-containing vaccine (DTP3) as a proxy for coverage in general – rose from 81% to 91% in that same time-frame.

Child mortality attributed to vaccine-preventable disease in Burundi stood at 1,430 deaths in the year 2014, versus in the year 2024, in which the country recorded just 265 fatalities linked to vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs).”

From Gavi.