Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of 19 January 2021 of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Official Report column 759, on the Covax facility helping to vaccinate 500 million people in 2021, what the total population is of those 92 developing countries.

The goal of the COVAX Facility is to secure access to 2 billion doses by the end of 2021. The COVAX Facility aims to vaccinate up to 20 percent of all participating countries in the Advance Market Commitment (AMC), proportional to their populations, and initially prioritising healthcare workers then expanding to cover vulnerable groups. Further doses will be made available based on vaccine availability, country need, vulnerability, and COVID-19 threat. A humanitarian buffer within the COVAX AMC aims to provide 5% of available doses for use in fragile and conflict settings.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, estimates that the total population of the 92 AMC countries is 3.9 billion people.