Published on 30 June, 2021
During the month of June, more than 3000 expats took part in an Expat.com survey on vaccination. Of the 3000 expats surveyed, 49% said that they had already been vaccinated against the COVID-19 while 26% said they intended to get vaccinated in the future.
Globally, an estimated 49% of expats said they had been vaccinated against the COVID-19 and 26% said they intended to get vaccinated. Of the expats who participated in the survey, most were from France (29%), the UK (7.5%) and the US (7.4%) and lived all over the world, and particularly in Spain, Thailand, France, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. The majority of respondents who did get vaccinated explained having received their shot in their host country(84%) and the rest had to either fly to their home country or a third country to receive their vaccine.
Most of the expats who did get the vaccine got the Pfizer-BioNTech shot (41%) followed by the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot (27%) and others mostly got Moderna, Janssen, Sinopharm or Sinovac.
