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Injuries, Traffic

Image of trafficA road traffic injury is a fatal or non-fatal injury incurred as a result of a collision on a public road involving at least one moving vehicle. In 2013, an estimated 122 695 people died from road traffic injuries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, constituting approximately 9.79% of the world’s estimated deaths.

The road traffic fatality rate in the Region has decreased from 21.3 to 19.9 per 100 000 population between 2010 and 2013. Yet with this rate, the Region still ranks second in terms of the highest road traffic fatality rates in the world, after the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population). 

The Region is the only region where high-income countries have an overall road traffic death rate that is higher than that of the less affluent countries (22.4 compared to 19. 8 and 18.02 per 100 000 population in middle- and low-income countries, respectively) and is more than double the average global rate of high-income countries.

The road traffic death rate in the Region is highest among men in the age group between 15 and 29 years, and disproportionately affects the vulnerable road users as they account for 41% of the regional deaths. 

Related links

Fact sheet on road traffic injuries

Infographics on global road safety 2015

Information resources

Global status report on road safety 2015 

Road safety in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Facts from the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013 

Road safety in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Highlights from the Global status report on road safety 2013

Global status report on road safety 2013

Eastern Mediterranean status report on road safety: Call for action 2010

Global status report on road safety 2009

"How to" road safety manuals

Reports

Summary report on the Expert consultation on road safety in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt, 6–7 January 2016

Declarations and conventions

Brasilia Declaration (2015)

Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020: Saving millions of lives (2011)

Moscow Declaration (2009) 

Links

United Nations Road Safety Collaboration

Global Road Safety Forum

Global Road Safety Partnership

World Day of Remembrance for Road Victims

Related topics

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Child injuries and violence

Disability

Injuries

Violence

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Data

Death on the roads: a data visualization of the Global status report on road safety 2015

Country profiles from the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015

Country profiles from the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013

Regional data and analysis on road safety 2013

Global Health Observatory data on road safety

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