More than a million people die from road injuries every year

Around 1.3 million people die from road injuries across the world every year. That includes the deaths of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians.

That’s around 2.4% of deaths from all causes.

As the chart shows, this death toll has been similar for decades, in the range of 1.25 to 1.35 million deaths each year. However, with a larger global population and many more cars on the road, this means the death rate from road injuries — the number of deaths per 100,000 people — has fallen.