These include deaths from Covid and from the indirect effects of the pandemic over two years worldwide.
The Covid pandemic has caused the deaths of nearly 15 million people around the world, theThe WHO believes many countries undercounted the numbers who died from Covid - only 5.4 million were reported.
The measure used by the WHO is called excess deaths - how many more people died than would normally be expected based on mortality in the same area before the pandemic hit.These calculations also take into account deaths which were not directly because of Covid but instead caused by its knock-on effects, like people being unable to access hospitals for the care they needed. It also accounts for poor record-keeping in some regions, and sparse testing at the start of the crisis.
Speaking about the scale of the figures, Dr Samira Asma, from the WHO's data department, said "It's a tragedy. The report also looks at the rates of excess deaths relative to each country's population size. The UK's excess mortality rate - like America, Spain and Germany - was above the global average during 2020 and 2021.
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