Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)

Dataset SH.IMM.MEAS published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: WHO and UNICEF estimates of national immunization coverage
Code: SH.IMM.MEAS
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: World Health Organization (WHO), uri: http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/en/; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/immunization/

Definition published with the series

Child immunization, measles, measures the percentage of children ages 12-23 months who received the measles vaccination before 12 months or at any time before the survey. A child is considered adequately immunized against measles after receiving one dose of vaccine.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Measles immunisation of children	SH.IMM.MEAS	% of children aged 12 to 23 months