Key Points

• Continued increase in vaccination uptake among infants covered by the expanded vaccination mandate:

  • +3.8 percentage points for vaccination coverage of the first dose of the meningococcal C vaccine at 8 months of age (2019 cohort: 84.9%; 2021 cohort: 88.7%)

  • +3.7 percentage points for vaccination coverage of the second dose of the meningococcal C vaccine at 21 months of age (2018 cohort: 87.8%; 2020 cohort: 91.5%)

  • +1 percentage point for vaccination coverage of the first dose of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine at 21 months of age (2019 cohort: 92.4%; 2021 cohort: 93.4%)

• However, the rate of increase has stabilized for other vaccines:

  • +0.6 percentage points for vaccination coverage of the third dose of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b, and hepatitis B at 21 months of age (2018 cohort: 90.3%; 2020 cohort: 90.9%), following a 6.4-point increase in previous years (between the 2017 and 2019 cohorts)

  • +0.1 percentage points for vaccination coverage of the third dose of the pneumococcal vaccine at 21 months of age (2018 cohort: 91.1%; 2020 cohort: 91.2%), following a 1.7-point increase in previous years (between the 2017 and 2019 cohorts)

• Increase in vaccination coverage among children and adolescents born before the law took effect:

  • +5.2 percentage points for vaccination coverage of the first dose of the HPV vaccine among 15-year-old girls born in 2006 (45.8%) compared to girls born in 2005 (40.7%)

  • Increase in catch-up vaccination coverage for meningococcal C in all age groups over 2 years old, ranging from +2.0 to +5.4 percentage points between 2020 and 2021

• Decrease in influenza vaccination coverage compared to the previous 2020–21 season (-3.2 percentage points), during which it was particularly high due to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, but an increase compared to the 2019–20 season (+4.8 percentage points)

• No decrease in vaccination coverage, at the national level, during the 2020-2021 period covering the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the 2018-2019 years