Here’s the countries where people trust vaccines the least

Many countries in Europe are far, far more sceptical about vaccines than we are in Britain, with a third of French people not trusting vaccines, global research has found.

The countries with the highest numbers of parents claiming to not vaccinate their children are China (9%), Austria (8%) and Japan (7%).

A global survey of more than 140,000 people in more than 140 countries found 79% of the world's population think vaccines are safe with 92% of parents saying their children have been vaccinated.

The report, conducted by biomedical research charity Wellcome, found there is less certainty about the safety of vaccines in high-income regions, with 72% of people in Northern America and 59% in Western Europe agreeing they are safe.

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In the UK, 75% of people agreed vaccines are safe, with 9% disagreeing.

France offers a very different picture, with a third of people disagreeing that vaccines are safe - the highest percentage for any country in the world.

Charlie Weller, Wellcome's head of vaccines, said: "It is reassuring that almost all parents worldwide are vaccinating their children.

"However, there are pockets of lower confidence in vaccines across the world and we cannot afford to be complacent.

"To ensure society gets the full benefit of vaccines, we need to make sure that people have confidence in both the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and understand more about the complex reasons why this is not always the case."

Anti-vaccination groups have been blamed for some parents not vaccinating their children with the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) following Andrew Wakefield's discredited research linking autism to the jab.

However, the Wellcome survey found 95% of UK parents said that their children had been vaccinated to prevent childhood diseases, with 3% reporting their children hadn't.

This compares to 92% of parents worldwide who say their children have been vaccinated, and 6% who say their children are unvaccinated, representing a potential 188 million parents globally, according to the report.