Thread by @redouad

There is a rising debate in Spanish Twitter following this tweet by Pedro Sanchez.

The question being: is it true that Spain is first in the world in vaccinations, or is it just the first country in the default selection on this chart?

https://twitter.com/sanchezcastejon/status/1426134410794086403

Due to limited space on our charts and the number of countries in our data, we can't show all countries. We make a default selection based on a mix of criteria, the main one being population (if you can't show everyone, the second-best thing is to show as many people as possible)

Now, are there countries that have vaccinated a higher % than Spain?

For a population > 20 million, there aren't.

For a population > 10 million: Chile, Portugal

For a population > 1 million: UAE, Singapore, Denmark, Uruguay, Qatar

For a population > 100,000: Malta, Iceland

But the bottom line is that Spain has vaccinated a high share of its population (73%), and I think there are more important things than listing which countries have reached 72% or 74%.

More important things, such as the fact that the share in low-income countries is a mere 1%.