New data will help to halve road safety deaths

2 January 2024 – Globally, 1.19 million people were killed on roads in 2021, at a rate of 15 road traffic deaths per 100 000 population. Road crashes remain a major killer of younger, productive age groups, which has major implications for health and development.

These are some of the figures given in the “Global status report on road safety 2023”, whicHO launched on 13 December 2023. It is the first such report published during the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030.

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the road safety situation and sets out baseline data for monitoring progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.6 and the Decade of Action target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by at least 50% by 2030.

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