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Global (figures up to 24/11/22)

During the last month, global CMR's have mostly been dropping with the global average now at 1.029% compared to 1.039% in the previous period and 1.993% a year ago. Notably; Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Thailand and the United Kingdom all saw CMR rise.

Case numbers decrease with 11.752M in this period compared to 13.856M in the previous period with a slightly higher 47,393 deaths in the last month for a higher CMR of 0.403% on an unadjusted basis.

Overall the increase in cases numbers was 1.8% and the variance in the number of deaths only 0.71%.

Countries (with >100k cases) that were above 4% growth for the month are China (+14.2%); Hong Kong (+9.2%); Japan (+9.0%); Taiwan (+8.8%); South Korea (+5.5%); New Zealand (+4.5%); Singapore (+4.2%); Greece (+4.2%) and Finland (+4.2%).

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with Taiwan (+12.4%); Finland (+11.8%); Japan (+5.2%); New Zealand (+4.8%) and South Korea (+4.2%) the only significant growth amongst countries with >100k cases.