According to the world health organization road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1 35 million deaths worldwide in the year 2016. This list of countries by traffic related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year per number of motor vehicles and per vehicle km in some countries in the year the data was collected. United nations projections are also included through the year 2100.
Chart and table of the india death rate from 1950 to 2020. Road accidents in india account to 1 5 lakh a year. Who world health organisation records 13 5 lakh deaths in the world.
Indian road deaths wipe out one city every year to put the death toll due to road accidents in perspective in the last one decade the average annual road death crashes stand at 1 3 lakh per. National highways which comprise of 1 94 percent of total road network accounted for 30 2 per cent of total road accidents and 35 7 per cent of deaths in 2018. As per the who global report on road safety 2018 india accounts for almost 11 of the accident related deaths in the world.
India s average traffic collision fatality rate was similar to the world average rate of 17 4 deaths per 100 000 people less than the low income countries which averaged 24 1 deaths per 100 000 and higher than the high income countries which reported the lowest average rate of 9 2 deaths per 100 000 in 2013. Jul 24 2020 23 26. Officials said the decline in road fatalities was significant as odisha s fatality rate death per 100 accidents of 47 was higher than the national average.
In india road fatalities in 2016 were reported at 1. For example the highest rate was noted in africa with 26 6 per 1 00 000 persons while the lowest was in europe at 9 3 per 1 00 000 persons. One serious road accident in the country occurs every minute and 16 die on indian roads every hour.
Drunken driving is one of the leading causes of road fatalities. There is one death every four minutes due to a road accident in india. 5 lives end on delhi s roads everyday.
16 children die on indian roads daily.
