The Global status report on road safety 2023 details
the scale of global road traffic deaths, and progress in advancing laws,
strategies and actions to reduce them around the world.
The fifth report in a series, it provides an
overview of progress between 2010 and 2021, and sets a baseline for the United
Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 target of halving road
traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.
The report shows that the number of road traffic deaths has fallen slightly to 1.19 million per year, and that efforts to improve road safety are having an impact. Yet the price paid for mobility remains far too high, and urgent action is needed if the goal of halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030 is to be achieved.
Working version of the questionnaire used to collect country- and territory-level data from government-designated National data focal points. The questionnaire was adapted to a data collection platform that made its debut with the Global status report on road safety data collection -which went from September 2022 to August 2023
The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35...
