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Global (figures up to 22/01/23)

During the last month, global CMR's have mostly been dropping with the global average now at 1.002% compared to 1.011% in the previous month and 1.575% a year ago.

Notably; Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, MalaysiaMalta, New Zealand,Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom all saw CMR rise.

Case numbers decrease this month with 12.341M compared to 15.434M in the previous period but with a higher 62,585 deaths in the last month and a higher CMR of 0.507% on an unadjusted basis.
Overall the increase in cases numbers was 1.8% and the variance in the number of deaths 0.93%.Countries (with >100k cases) that were above 4% growth for the month areChina (+21.9%);Hong Kong (+14.6%); Japan (+12.8%);Taiwan (+7.6%); Channel Islands (+5.3%); South Korea (+4.9%); Brunei (+4.7%) andNew Zealand (+4.4%).

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with Japan (+16.4%); Hong Kong (+13.3%); Norway (+9.2%); Finland (+7.3%); New Zealand (+6.6%); Taiwan (+6.6%);Australia (+6.5%); Channel Islands (+6.3%); Denmark (+4.8%) and South Korea (+4.6%) the only significant growth amongst countries with >100k cases.