Death rate due to road traffic injuries

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Headline data

Age-adjusted rate of deaths due to road traffic injuries per 100,000 US population
Year Value
2000 14.9
2001 14.8
2002 15.2
2003 14.9
2004 14.7
2005 14.6
2006 14.5
2007 13.8
2008 12.3
2009 11.1
2010 10.7
2011 10.6
2012 10.9
2013 10.5
2014 10.3
2015 10.9
2016 11.7
2017 11.5
2018 11.2
2019 11.1
2020 12.0
2021 13.3
2022 12.9

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Underlying Cause of Death File

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Footnote:

This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from United States statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available from American statistics, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other American-specific metadata information.

Indicator

Death rate due to road traffic injuries.
Organisation

National Center for Health Statistics, Underlying Cause of Death File.
Unit of measure

Age-adjusted rates per 100,000 US 2000 standard population for the respective year
Data sources

National Center for Health Statistics, Underlying Cause of Death File.
Data providers

Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics.
Comment and limitations

Rates were generated by CDC Wonder using the Underlying Cause of Death mortality files. Rates were selected based on the Injury Intent and Mechanism list with mechanism set to ‘Motor Vehicle Traffic’ ICD-10 code (V02–V04[.1,.9],V09.2,V12–V14[.3–.9],V19[.4–.6],V20–V28[.3–.9],V29–V79[.4–.9],V80[.3–.5],V81.1,V82.1,V83–V86[.0–.3],V87[.0–.8],V89.2)
Method of computation

Number of deaths attributable to traffic injuries divided by the population and expressed per 100,000 population. Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population using the direct method of applying age-specific death rates to the U.S. standard population distribution. See http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/ucd.html#Age-Adjusted Rates for more detail.
Actual indicator available - description

Age-adjusted rate of deaths per year due to road traffic injuries expressed per 100,000 US standard population.
Date of national source publication

December 2016.
Periodicity

Annual
Date metadata updated

July, 2024

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Indicator

Indicator 3.6.1: Death rate due to road traffic injuries
Target

Target 3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents
Organisation

World Health Organization (WHO)

Definition and concepts

Definition:

Death rate due to road traffic injuries as defined as the number of road traffic fatal injury deaths per 100,000 population.

Concepts:

Numerator: Number of deaths due to road traffic crashes

Absolute figure indicating the number of people who die as a result of a road traffic crash.

Denominator: Population (number of people by country)

Unit of measure

Rate per 100 000 population

Data sources

For the road traffic deaths we have two sources of data. Data from Global Status Report on Road Safety survey and Vital registration or certificate deaths data that WHO receive every year from member states (ministries of health).

For the population, we used data from the United Nations / Department of Economic and Social Affairs/ Population division.

Data providers

The road traffic deaths data were provided nationally by mainly three ministries, namely, ministry of health, ministry of interior and ministry of transport.
Comment and limitations

There are no vital registration data for all countries to make comparison against the data received on the survey. Also we cannot collect road traffic data every year using this methodology outlined in the Global status report.

Method of computation

The methods used for the analysis of causes of death depend on the type of data available from countries:

For countries with a high-quality vital registration system including information on cause of death, the vital registration that member states submit to the WHO Mortality Database were used, with adjustments where necessary, e.g. for under-reporting of deaths, unknown age and sex, and ill-defined causes of deaths.

For countries without high-quality death registration data, cause of death estimates are calculated using other data, including household surveys with verbal autopsy, sample or sentinel registration systems, special studies.
Metadata update

2021-03-01
International organisations(s) responsible for global monitoring

World Health Organization (WHO)

Related indicators

3.5, 11.2

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