List of countries by traffic-related death rate

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

According to the World Health Organization

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, road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.26 million deaths worldwide in the year 2000. The average rate was 20.8 per 100,000 people, 30.8 for males, 11.0 for females. 90% occurred in low and middle income countries, with South-East Asia and Africa having the highest rates.

Country	Road fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year	Road fatalities per 100,000 motor vehicles	Road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km	Total fatalities latest year	Source
	20.8				2000
Afghanistan	39.0
Albania	13.9
Angola	37.7
Argentina	13.7
Armenia	13.9
Australia	5.2	8	6	379
Austria	8.2	12	8.9
Azerbaijan	13.0
The Bahamas	14.5		8.9
Bahrain	12.1
Bangladesh	12.6
Barbados	12.2
Belarus	15.7
	10.1	17	10.8
Belize	15.6
Benin	31.2
Bhutan	14.4
Bolivia	16.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.9
Botswana	33.8
Brazil	19.9	70.9	55.9	37,694
British Virgin Islands	21.7
Brunei	13.8
Kingdom of Bulgaria	13.5	48.4	32.8
Burkina Faso	31.1
Burundi	23.4
Cambodia	12.1
Cameroon	28.1
Canada	9.2	13	8.2
Cape Verde	25.1
Central African Republic	32.2
Chad	34.3
Chile	13.7
Mainland China	16.5
Colombia	11.7
Comoros	30.3
Republic of the Congo	28.8
Cook Islands	45.0
Costa Rica	15.4
Independent State of Croatia	13.6
Cuba	8.6
Cyprus	10.4	23.6	16.7
Czech Republic	10.4	20	19.5
Democratic Republic of the Congo	32.2
Denmark	7.4	14	8.2
Dominican Republic	17.3
Ecuador	11.7
Egypt	8.1			6,486	2009
El Salvador	12.6
Eritrea	48.4
Estonia	15.2	38.9	17.5
Ethiopia	35.0
Fiji	7.0
Finland	6.5	11	7.0
Early Modern France	6.9	12	7.7
The Gambia	36.6
Georgia (country)	16.8
Germany	4.5	7.2	7.2(2009)	3,657	2010 official figures
Ghana	29.6
Greece	14.4	21	17.4
Guatemala	14.7
Guinea-Bissau	34.4
Guyana	19.9
Honduras	13.5
Hungary	9.9	27	27.1
Iceland	3.8	5	3.9
India	16.8
Indonesia	16.2
Iran	35.8
Iraq	38.1
Republic of Ireland	4.7	10	4.9	212* (Prelim. Estimate for 2010)
Israel	5.7	18	8.5	370	2009 official
Italy	8.7	12
Jamaica	12.3
Japan	3.85	6.8		4,914	2009 official figures
Jordan	34.2
Kazakhstan	30.6
Kenya	34.4
Kiribati	7.4
South Korea	12.7	29	19.3
Kuwait	16.9
Kyrgyzstan	22.8
Laos	18.3
Latvia	17.9	52	25.6
Lebanon	28.5
Lesotho	26.7
Liberia	32.9
Libya	40.5
Lithuania	14.8	49.8	19.1
Luxembourg	9.0	8	5.4
Madagascar	33.7
Malawi	26.0
Malaysia	24.1	36.5		6,745	2009 end/
Maldives	18.3
Mali	32.1
Malta	3.4	4.6	4.9
Marshall Islands	1.7
Mauritania	35.5
Mauritius	11.1
Mexico	20.7
Federated States of Micronesia	14.4
Mongolia	19.3	280		5,278	2003
Kingdom of Montenegro	14.6	44.5		95	2010
Morocco	28.3
Mozambique	34.7
Myanmar	23.4
Namibia	28.6
Nauru	9.9
Nepal	15.1
Netherlands	4.1	7	7.7	640
New Zealand	8.6	11	9.1
Nicaragua	14.2
Niger	37.7
Nigeria	32.3
Norway	5.4	8	6.1
Oman	21.3
Pakistan	25.3
Palau	14.8
Palestinian territories	4.9
Panama	12.7
Papua New Guinea	14.2
Paraguay	19.7
Peru	21.5
Philippines	20.0
Poland	14.7	28	23.5
Portugal	11.8	18	13.1
Puerto Rico	12.8
	23.7		12
Republic of Macedonia	6.9
Moldova	15.1
Kingdom of Romania	12.7	71.1	39.8
Russia	25.2
Rwanda	31.6
Saint Lucia	17.6
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.6
Samoa	12.8
San Marino	3.2
São Tomé and Príncipe	33.0
Saudi Arabia	29.0
Senegal	32.5
Serbia	9.8
Seychelles	18.5
Sierra Leone	28.3
Singapore	4.8
Slovakia	15.1	43.9	21.5
Slovenia	10.4	17	17.2
Solomon Islands	16.9
South Africa	33.2
Spain	6.9	10	11.7
Sri Lanka	13.5
Sudan	34.7
Suriname	18.3
Swaziland	26.3
Sweden	2.9	7	5.1	270	(2008) (Preliminary results for 2010)
Switzerland	4.7	7	5.6
	32.9
Tajikistan	14.1
Thailand	19.6
East Timor	16.1
Togo	28.1
Tonga	7.0
Trinidad and Tobago	15.5
Tunisia	34.5
Turkey	13.4
Turkmenistan	18.6
Tuvalu	9.5
Uganda	24.7		v
Ukraine	21.5		v
United Arab Emirates	37.1		310
United Kingdom	3.59	7	5.7	2,222	2009 Dft results (per capita) else
	34.3
	12.3	15	8.5	33,808
Uruguay	12.8
Uzbekistan	9.7
Vanuatu	18.6
Venezuela	21.8
Vietnam	16.1
Yemen	29.3
Zambia	25.6
Zimbabwe	27.5

See also

• Epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions
• Traffic collision
• List of causes of death by rate
• Road-traffic safety
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• Smeed's law
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• List of motor vehicle deaths in Japan by year
• List of motor vehicle deaths in U.S. by year