A Gallup poll conducted worldwide has shown that Jamaica had one of the highest vaccine hesitancy rates around the globe in 2020.
The poll surveyed more than 300,000 people across 117 countries last year.
The results released this week show that only 32 per cent of Jamaicans would take a COVID-19 vaccine if it was offered to them for free.
Fifty-nine per cent said they would not take the vaccine, while eight per cent said they did not know if they would.
Kazakhstan, Gabon, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Jordan were the only countries with lower take-up rates than Jamaica.
Willingness to take the vaccine was highest for Myanmar where 96 per cent of persons said they would take it and four per cent said no.
Overall, the poll showed that 68 per cent of adults worldwide would get a vaccine if one was offered to them for free.
Twenty-nine per cent of those polled said they would opt out of vaccination, and another three per cent said they did not know.
However, based on its time frame, the poll could not have captured how attitudes toward the vaccine might have changed as shots were rolled out in the first few months of 2021.
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