List of countries by traffic-related death rate explained

This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016.[1] That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average.

Only 28 countries, representing 449 million people (seven percent of the world's population), have laws that address the five risk factors of speed, drunk driving, helmets, seat-belts and child restraints. Over a third of road traffic deaths in low- and middle-income countries are among pedestrians and cyclists. However, less than 35 percent of low- and middle-income countries have policies in place to protect these road users.[2] The average rate was 17.4 per 100,000 people. Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000.[2]

Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles. In low-income countries it is even worse. Only one percent of the world's registered cars produce 16 percent of world's road traffic deaths. This indicates that these countries bear a disproportionately high burden of road traffic deaths relative to their level of motorization.[2]

In the United States, fatal crashes involving cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians are on the rise, offsetting the decrease in fatal crashes involving passenger cars. As a result, the overall reduction in fatal crashes from 1991 to 2021 is only 21%. In contrast, other developed countries tracked by the International Transport Forum saw a median decrease of 77% in fatal crashes, with Spain experiencing the largest reduction. On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991.[3]

There are large disparities in road traffic death rates between regions. The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000).[2]

Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. 77 percent of road deaths are males.[4]

The total fatalities figures comes from the WHO report (table A2, column point estimate, pp. 264–271) and are often an adjusted number of road traffic fatalities in order to reflect the different reporting and counting methods among the many countries (e.g., "a death after how many days since accident event is still counted as a road fatality?" (by international standard adjusted to a 30-day period), or "to compensate for under-reporting in some countries".[2] [5]

List

See also: List of countries and territories by motor vehicles per capita. The table shows that the highest death tolls tend to be in African countries, and the lowest in European countries. The table first lists WHO geographic regions before alphabetically sorted countries.

(For context, this list shall be cross-referenced with lists of motor vehicles or motorcycles per capita, as numerous countries have low per capita vehicle ownership; being either heavily reliant on motorcycles or public transportation.)

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Road Safety Annual Report . 18 December 2023 . OECD/ITF, Paris . 2023 . WHO . 18 December 2023 . Official Report . PDF . 31 July 2024.
  2. Book: Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151020144338/http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2015/en/ . dead . 20 October 2015 . World Health Organization (WHO) . WHO . vii, 1–14, 75ff (countries), 264–271 (table A2), 316–332 (table A10) . PDF . official report . Geneva. 2015 . Tables A2 & A10, data from 2013 . 978-92-4-156506-6 . 27 January 2016.
  3. Web site: Fatal Car Crash Statistics . 2024-07-22 . www.trialproven.com.
  4. Book: Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013: supporting a decade of action. World Health Organization (WHO). 2013. 978-92-4-156456-4. WHO. Geneva, Switzerland. vii, 1–8, 53ff (countries), 244–251 (table A2), 296–303 (table A10). official report. Tables A2 & A10, data from 2010. 30 May 2014.
  5. Web site: WHO Report 2015: Data tables . https://web.archive.org/web/20151130025846/http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2015/GSRRS2015_data/en/ . dead . 30 November 2015 . World Health Organization (WHO) . WHO . PDF . official report. Geneva. 2015 . 26 January 2016.
  6. Web site: 2021-02-09 . Road traffic deaths Data by WHO region . 2024-03-02 . World Health Organization.
  7. Web site: 2021-02-09 . Road traffic deaths Data by country . 2024-03-02 . World Health Organization . "WHO 2019".
  8. Book: Road Safety Annual Report 2018 . 18 May 2018 . International Transport Forum (itf) . OECD/ITF . Paris . 21 . official report . data from 2016 . 18 December 2018.
  9. Web site: Annual International road safety comparisons 2022 . Australian Government Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics . 13 June 2024.
  10. Web site: Road deaths in the European Union – latest data ETSC. 2020-06-21. etsc.eu.
  11. Web site: Road Safety Country Profile Czechia 2023 . ITF OECD . 13 June 2024.
  12. Web site: Intrant indica informe sobre siniestralidad refleja bajas en muertes por accidentes de tránsito . INTRANT.GOB.DO. 21 July 2024.
  13. Web site: Transport Department. 2021-10-21. Summary of Key Statistics(English). dead. 2022-01-07. 6 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220106211506/https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-td-wcms_14-road-traffic-accident-stat-2020/resource/4f0b8a8f-a85c-4cb3-b22f-b69c7fedfbd3.
  14. Web site: Slysatölur ("Accident Statistics") – latest data Icelandic Transport Authority. 2021-11-08.
  15. Web site: Average population by sex and age 1841-2021 .
  16. Web site: Road Safety: Japan Sees Rise in Annual Traffic Accidents and Fatalities. nippon.com.
  17. https://statistica.gov.md/files/files/publicatii_electronice/Moldova_in_cifre/2024/Moldova_cifre_2024.pdf The statistical summary "Moldova in figures", 2024 edition
  18. Web site: 도로교통사고사망률.
  19. Figure from 2010.