Table 1.

Country-level background characteristics related to COVID-19 vaccines and COVID-19 epidemiology at the time of vaccine arrival in 15 West African countries

Countries	Country total population*	No of COVID-19 vaccines doses initially received	Arrival of vaccines to deployment duration (days)	COVID-19 cases per 100 000 population as of vaccine arrival	COVID deaths per 100 000 population as of vaccine arrival
Benin	12 451 000	144 000	18	55	0.47
Burkina Faso	21 497 000	115 200	3	66	0.33
Cape Verde	556 000	24 000	6	2907	528.6
Côte d’Ivoire	27 054 000	504 000	3	126	0.49
Gambia	2 487 000	36 000	7	201	8.55
Ghana	31 732 000	600 000	5	267	0.88
Guinea	13 497 000	194 400	20	164	1.28
Guinea-Bissau	2 015 000	28 800	21	192	9.97
Liberia	5 180 000	396 000	27	45	0.96
Mali	20 856 000	44 286	15	54	0.29
Niger	25 131 000	400 000	7	23	0.11
Nigeria	211 401 000	3 924 000	2	66	0.03
Senegal	17 196 000	200 000	5	195	1.20
Sierra Leone	8 141 000	200 000	25	49	0.63
Togo	8 478 000	156 000	2	94	1.16

This table shows the total population of each of ECOWAS countries according to the UN Population Prospects 2020, number of COVID-19 vaccines doses initially received in the first shipments, duration of arrival of vaccines in the country to vaccine deployment, COVID-19 cases per 100 000 population and COVID deaths per 100 000 population as of vaccine arrival.

*Based on the UN Population Prospects 2020.

ECOWAS, Economic Community of West Africa States.