Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2023

Measles vaccination effectively prevents measles, a highly contagious disease that can cause severe complications and death and requires high population immunity to interrupt transmission. This report describes measles elimination progress during 2000-2023. During 2000-2023, an estimated 60.3 million measles deaths were averted by vaccination. However, despite commitment from all six World Health Organization regions to eliminate measles, no region has successfully achieved and maintained measles elimination as of the end of 2023. During the COVID-19 pandemic, estimated global coverage with the first dose of measles-containing vaccine (MCV1) declined to 81%, the lowest level since 2008. MCV1 coverage improved…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• BA
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• GA
  GAVI Alliance
• WH
  World Health Organization
• JH
  Johns Hopkins University
• IC
  Imperial College London
• JH
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health