SAFER traffic safety statistics
SAFER has explored an interesting way to look at the road safety development across the globe. In this example, we can view the 13 countries which constitute the ESV Global Focal Points. The data used are publicly available on-line from several global organisations providing data.
The below graph is an example that illustrates the decrease in fatality rate since 1990. In this graph we show the traffic deaths per billion kilometres driven together with the number of vehicles registered per thousand inhabitants. The size of the bubbles is representing the population. Since this is based on data publicly available and easy accessible on the web, some countries do not have full coverage for all years in the graph.
What this graph shows is that the number of vehicles per person is increasing (on the x-axis), and at the same time, the fatalities per vehicle kilometre driven (on the y axis) is decreasing
Press "play" to see the bubbles move. Hold your mouse over bubbles to see which country each bubble represents.
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In the next graph data is visualised in a different way. Here we can see the decrease in traffic deaths per kilometre driven for each year since 1970 and the decreasing trends are evident even in this graph.