North Macedonia is in the 42nd place in terms of mortality rate, according to the CIA list, in which 229 countries in the world are ranked.

North Macedonia has a coefficient of 9.61 deaths per 1000 inhabitants, on an annual basis.

The coefficient, according to the methodology of the analysis, is calculated as the average of the annual number of deaths per 1000 inhabitants in the middle of the year, Telegraph Macedonia reports.

According to the CIA list, Serbia is in the first place in the world in terms of mortality with a coefficient of 16.39.

In the first ten countries, apart from Serbia, there are also Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Belarus and Croatia.

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All these countries are from Europe, so the same group occupies the first ten places in the list of European countries with the highest mortality.

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Of the countries from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, Croatia is in 10th place, Slovenia is 28th, Montenegro is 30th and Bosnia and Herzegovina is 32nd.

In the Republic of North Macedonia, according to the data of the State Statistics Agency, 28,516 people died last year.

The most common cause of death was diseases of the circulatory system (35.9%), complications from COVID-19 (20.6%), neoplasms (13.8%), endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (5, 8 %) and diseases of the respiratory system (4.2 %)./Telegrafi/

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