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The decade of the last recorded case of paralytic polio by country

Shown is when the last case of wild-type polio was recorded. It remains endemic in three countries today.

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Source: World Health Organization, Report of Selected Vaccine Preventable Diseases (2017)

Note: The following countries eradicated polio before 1960 but are hard to see in the map at the moment: Nauru (1910), Tuvalu (1936), Palau (1940), American Samoa, Niue and Tokelau (1950), Cayman
Islands (1958), and Andorra and Cook Islands (1959).