How Culture can explain the differences in vaccination rates across countries.
Covid, Hofstede, cultural distance, cultural dimension, vaccination.
The Covid-19 Pandemic started in 2020 and with it society faced several challenges. It had impacts in the economic sphere, practically all countries recorded a drop in GDP in 2020, and in the social sphere, there were more than 6 million deaths. Populations around the world had to make a common decision in the face of the epidemic disaster, whether to take the vaccine for the new coronavirus and although the decision seems obvious to many individuals, the behavior observed across countries was different. The present work investigates why vaccination has advanced differently in different countries, using variables from the cultural literature, specifically the cultural dimensions of Hofstede (2010) and the measures of cultural distance of Muthukrishna (2020).