These trends likely reflect several factors. Despite high infection rates on a per capita basis, most the Gulf Cooperation Country (GCC) states have been able to keep their fatality rates relatively low throughout the pandemic. In later months, COVID-19 fatality seems to have been reduced in most states, with Algeria and Egypt remaining outliers. In April and May 2020, fatality rates increased significantly in several lower- and middle-income countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, as well as fragile states like Iraq, Lebanon, and Libya.
In the earliest stages of the pandemic, most MENA countries witnessed extremely low fatality rates. The visualization below tracks the fatality rate for a sample of MENA countries from March 2020 through July 2021. However, as in the OECD, experience within MENA has varied significantly.
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Since this period, as medical practitioners have learned how to better treat the infection, fatality rates have declined across the board. Between March and November 2020, MENA’s aggregate fatality rate – the number of new deaths as a share of new cases – averaged about 3 percent, as compared to 4 percent in the OECD. Compared to many Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has managed to keep COVID-19 fatality rates relatively low.
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