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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).
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] In the United States, 40,100 people died and 2.8 million were injured in crashes in 2017, [ 4 ] and around 2,000 children under 16 years old die ...
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In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million deaths worldwide, as per WHO report.
April 5 – Ivory Coast – At least 14 people were killed in two separate accidents on the highway linking Abidjan to the north of the country. [340] April 7 – Mexico – Two buses collided near Caborca, killing 16 and injuring 14. [341] April 9 - Democratic Republic of Congo - A bus crashed and caught fire in Kiwawa, killing 40 and injuring 31.
This is a list of U.S. states by road deaths. Data are for the year 2021. Death data are from NHTSA, [1] mileage figures are from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics [2] and population data are from the US Census. [3] Per billion vehicle miles, South Carolina had the highest death rate while Massachusetts had the lowest.
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.