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We use five measures of mobility using data from Google, Apple, TomTom, CityMapper and Flight Radar data. We track them across 50 countries. Here’s the high level summary:
- In DM, the countries closest to “normal” mobility are US, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. The caveat for the US is that car traffic in major cities is still low (see radar chart).
- In EM, the countries closest to “normal” mobility are China, Korea, Taiwan, Poland, Czech, Hungary, Russia, and Israel
In terms of changes:
- Google mobility data showed small increases in US, Portugal, Greece and Switzerland but a slight drop in Japan.
- Apple mobility is roughly the same as last week but confirms the increases from Greece and Portugal.
- TomTom traffic data increased in some places where it was already above average, like Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It also increased in some countries where it was lower than average, like France and New Zealand. Other countries remained at their past week’s values. US coastal cities traffic remained to the same record low values as before.
- In terms of population mobility across cities, CityMapper index slightly increased in France and UK, as well as in Denmark. The other places tracked by us largely stayed the same.
Bilal Hafeez is the CEO and Editor of Macro Hive. He spent over twenty years doing research at big banks – JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura, where he had various “Global Head” roles and did FX, rates and cross-markets research.
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