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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. [3] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
English: Chart showing motor vehicle traffic deaths in road accidents, by country Data source: OECD Data / Road Accidents. data.OECD.org. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (15 December 2023). Archived from the original on 6 July 2023. Related article: (11 December 2023).
Worldwide, it was estimated that 1.25 million people were killed and many millions more were injured in motor vehicle collisions in 2013. [2] This makes motor vehicle collisions the leading cause of death among young adults of 15–29 years of age (360,000 die a year) and the ninth most frequent cause of death for all ages worldwide. [3]
IRTAD participants. The International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) is an initiative dedicated to compiling and analyzing global road crash data. It is managed by the International Transport Forum (ITF) under the auspices of its permanent working group, which specializes in road safety, commonly referred to as the IRTAD Group.
Together, these changes caused the death rate to decline to 1.26 deaths per 100 million miles driven. In 2022, 42,514 people died in crashes, making a death rate of 1.33 per 100 million miles driven.
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