Only 40% of French people would agree to be vaccinated against Covid, which makes France one of the countries where there is the most mistrust of vaccination.

This has several causes: fear of side effects, doubt about its effectiveness or even more general opposition to vaccines.

Only 4 in 10 French people want to be vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a poll published on Tuesday which grants France the place of "world champion" of refractory countries, ahead of Russia and South Africa.

While the vaccination campaign has just started in France, 40% of French people would agree to be vaccinated against Covid, according to this Ipsos Global Advisor study in partnership with the World Economic Forum.

A large drop compared to their previous study published in October (54% inclined to be vaccinated) and even more compared to August (59%).

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Decreased vaccine intention

The latest figures from Santé Publique France published in early December also showed a drop in vaccine intention, with 53% of those questioned saying they certainly or probably want to be vaccinated.

France is not the only country where vaccination intentions are relatively low.

Thus, according to the Ipsos Global Advisor study, only 43% of Russians are ready to be vaccinated, and 53% of South Africans.

Next come Japan (60%), Italy and Spain (62%), followed by Germany (65%).

In contrast, China leads the country where people are most likely to be vaccinated (80%), ahead of Brazil (78%) and the United Kingdom (77%), the first to start vaccinations on December 8.

The United States, where a huge vaccination campaign has also started, is the only country where vaccination intentions are on the rise (69% today, 64% in October).

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General opposition to the vaccine in some countries

In the 15 countries concerned by the survey, the main reason for refractory people is fear of side effects (80% in South Korea, 76% in Japan, 72% in France).

Doubt about effectiveness is the second reason in many countries, ahead of not feeling at risk.

Next is general opposition to vaccines, which concerns about a quarter of the population surveyed in Russia (26%) and South Africa (23%), but less than 10% in South Korea (7%), Japan (8%) and China (9%).

In France, 14% of people questioned say they are anti-vaccine in general.

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The study was carried out in 15 countries via the Ipsos Global Advisor online platform between December 17 and 20 among 13,542 adults (including around a thousand in France, aged 18 to 74).