Table G: Fatality rates per capita, for (a) All road users 2020 and 2021 provisional; ranked by respective rates: International Comparisons1,2

Table G: Fatality rates per capita, for (a) All road users 2020 and 2021 provisional; ranked by respective rates: International Comparisons1,2

(a) All road users 2021 (Provisional 3 )
Per million population
Numbers killed Rate Index
Norway 80 15 57
Malta 9 17 67
Sweden 201 19 74
Denmark 130 22 85
Switzerland 200 23 88
England 1,329 23 89
Great Britain 1,558 24 91
United Kingdom 1,608 24 91
Iceland 9 24 92
Japan 3,205 26 98
Scotland 140 26 100
Northern Ireland 50 26 101
Wales 86 27 103
Irish Republic 137 27 105
Germany 2,562 31 118
Spain 1,508 32 122
Netherlands 582 33 127
Luxembourg 24 37 143
Israel 364 39 149
Finland 223 40 154
Austria 362 40 155
Estonia 55 41 158
Slovakia 226 42 159
France 2,944 43 166
Australia 1,122 44 167
Belgium 516 45 171
Italy 2,875 49 186
Portugal 514 50 191
Cyprus 45 50 191
Czech Republic 531 51 193
Lithuania 148 53 203
Slovenia 114 54 207
Hungary 544 56 214
Greece 613 58 220
Poland 2,245 59 225
New Zealand 318 62 238
Croatia 292 73 277
Serbia 521 76 290
Latvia 147 78 298
Bulgaria 561 81 311
Romania 1,779 93 356
United States of America 42,915 129 495
Canada [no data] [no data] [no data]
Republic of Korea [no data] [no data] [no data]

1. In accordance with the commonly agreed international definition, most countries define a fatality as one being due to a road accident where death occurs within 30 days of the accident. The official road accident statistics of some countries however, limit the fatalities to those occurring within shorter periods after the accident. Numbers of deaths and death rates in the above table have been adjusted according to the factors used by the Economic Commission for Europe and the International Transport Forum (ITF) (formerly known as ECMT) to represent standardised 30-day deaths: Italy (7 days) +8%; France (6 days) +5.7%; Portugal (1 day) +14%; Republic of Korea (3 days) +15%.

2. Source: International Road Traffic and Accident Database (OECD), ETSC, EUROSTAT and CARE (EU road accidents database).

3. The 2020 figures presented for Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom use Scotland’s finalised fatality numbers.

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