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Global (figures up to 23/12/22)

During the last month, global CMR's have mostly been dropping with the global average now at 1.011% compared to 1.029% in the previous month and 1.925% a year ago today. Notably; Azerbaijan, Australia, Bosnia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Guinea, Iceland,Ireland, Israel,Malta,Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom all saw CMR rise.

Case numbers increase with 15.434M in this period compared to 11.752M in the previous period with a slightly higher 49,424 deaths in the last month for a lower CMR of 0.320% on an unadjusted basis.
Overall the increase in cases numbers was 2.3% and the variance in the number of deaths 0.74%.

Countries (with >100k cases) that were above 4% growth for the month are China (+23.5%);Hong Kong (+14.9%); Japan (+13.2%); Czechia (+8.9%); Paraguay (+8.6%);Brunei (+7.8%); New Zealand (+7.0%); South Korea (+5.9%); Taiwan and Peru (+4.9%). Australia and France are only just under at 3.9%.

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with Japan (+10.6%); Finland (+8.4%);Hong Kong (+6.2%); New Zealand & Taiwan (+5.7%); Canada (+5.4%); Australia (+4.9%) and South Korea (+4.4%) the only significant growth amongst countries with >100k cases.