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Global (figures up to 24/09/22)

During the last month, global CMR's have mostly been dropping with the global average now at 1.055% compared to 1.1062% in the previous period and 2.047% a year ago today. Notably; Australia, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Iran, Israel, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and the United Kingdom all saw CMR rise.

Case numbers decrease with 14.61M in this period compared to 19.9M in the previous period with 52,834 deaths in the last period for a higher CMR of 0.362% on an unadjusted basis.

Overall the increase in cases numbers was 2.4% and the variance in the number of deaths only 0.81%.

Countries (with >100k cases) that were above 5% growth for the month rate are Taiwan (+16.4%); Hong Kong (+13.6%); Japan (+13.4%); Lithuania (+10.8%);South Korea (+6.9%);Russia (+6.7%); El Salvador (+5.4%)

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with Iceland (+16.0%); Japan (+13.0%); Taiwan (+9.1%); Australia (+8.0%); New Zealand (+7.3%); Austria (+6.4%); Finland (+5.9%) and South Korea (+5.8%) the only significant growth amongst countries with >100k cases.