Vaccine Wastage Rates Calculator
7 March 2023
| Technical document

Overview
A planning tool for improving the accuracy of forecasting vaccine wastage rates based on service delivery settings.
- Estimates, with greater precision, vaccine supply requirements and to improve the planning and management of immunization programmes.
- Automatically calculates the estimated wastage rates for all WHO prequalified vaccines, increasing the accuracy and quality of wastage data at country level.
- Computes the total wastage rate, which includes the unavoidable open vial wastage rate, the closed vial wastage rate per storage facility and the avoidable opened vial wastage rate.
WHO Team
Essential Programme on Immunization (EPI),
Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)