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On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991. [5] 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 ...
Visualization of road traffic deaths (per 100,000 inhabitants) in Europe, by country, between 2000 and 2022. The European Union (EU) has the safest roads in the world; in which 49 people per million inhabitants died in a road collision in 2018. [4]
Due to climate change temperatures rose in Europe and heat mortality increased. From 2003–12 to 2013–22 alone, it increased by 17 deaths per 100,000 people, while women are more vulnerable than men. [54] In the absence of climate change, extreme heat waves in Europe would be expected to occur only once every several hundred years. In ...
The 2023 death toll - below the more than 60,000 heat-related deaths estimated for the previous year - More than 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, report says Skip to main content
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U.S. pedestrian deaths in 2021 were the highest in four decades, with an average of 20 deaths a day, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. That's nearly 7,500 pedestrians killed ...
This causes illness and deaths from air pollution, including nitrous oxides and particulates, and is a significant cause of climate change through emission of carbon dioxide. [3] [4] Within the transport sector, road transport is the largest contributor to climate change. [3]
Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world. [7] Europe's climate is getting warmer due to anthropogenic activity. According to international climate experts, global temperature rise should not exceed 2 °C to prevent the most dangerous consequences of climate change; without reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, this could happen ...