List of countries by traffic - related death rate - wikipedia List of countries by traffic - related death rate Death rates from road traffic accidents by country, per 100,000 inhabitants, world map ( WHO 2012 ). Legend less than 5 5 - 10 10 - 15 15 - 20 20 - 25 25 - 30 30 - 35 35 - 40 more than 40 This list of countries by traffic - related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle - km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization, road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.25 million deaths worldwide in the year 2010. That is, one person is killed every 25 seconds. Only 28 countries, representing 449 million people ( seven percent of the world 's population ), have adequate laws that address all five risk factors ( speed, drunk driving, helmets, seat - belts and child restraints ). Over a third of road traffic deaths in low - and middle - income countries are among pedestrians and cyclists. However, less than 35 percent of low - and middle - income countries have policies in place to protect these road users. The average rate was 17.4 per 100,000 people. Low - income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high - income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. Seventy - four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle - income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world 's registered vehicles. In low - income countries it is even worse. Only one percent of the world 's registered cars produce 16 percent of world 's road traffic deaths. This indicates that these countries bear a disproportionately high burden of road traffic deaths relative to their level of motorization. There are large disparities in road traffic death rates between regions. The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region ( increasing 26.6 per 100 000 population ), and lowest in the European Region ( decreasing 9.3 per 100 000 ). Half of the world 's road traffic deaths occur among motorcyclists ( 23 percent ), pedestrians ( 22 percent ) and cyclists ( 5 percent ) -- i.e., `` vulnerable road users '' -- with 31 percent of deaths among car occupants and the remaining 19 percent among unspecified road users. Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. Seventy - seven percent of road deaths are males. The total fatalities figures comes from the WHO report ( table A2, column point estimate, pp. 264 -- 271 ) and are often an adjusted number of road traffic fatalities in order to reflect the different reporting and counting methods among the many countries ( e.g., `` a death after how many days since accident event is still counted as a road fatality ? '' ( by international standard adjusted to a 30 - day period ), or `` to compensate for under - reporting in some countries ''. Contents 1 List 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References List The table shows that the highest death tolls tend to be in African countries, and the lowest in European countries. The table first lists geographic regions before alphabetically sorted countries. A comparison between left - handed and right - handed traffic can not be done without taking into account a variety of confounding factors such as the degree of compliance with traffic regulations, the level of policing, GDP per capita, the median / mode of the age of cars and many more. Country Road fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year Road fatalities per 100,000 motor vehicles Road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle - km Total fatalities latest year ( adjusted / estimated figures by WHO report ) Year, data source ( standard source : The WHO report 2015, data from 2013 ) Left / Right traffic World 17.4 1,250,000 Africa 26.6 574 246,719 Eastern Mediterranean 19.9 139 122,730 Western Pacific 17.3 69 328,591 South - east Asia 17.0 101 316,080 Americas 15.9 33 153,789 Europe 9.3 19 84,589 Afghanistan 15.5 722.4 n / a 4,734 2013 Right Albania 15.1 107.2 n / a 478 2013 Right Algeria 23.8 127.8 n / a 9,337 2013 Right Andorra 7.6 7.9 n / a 6 2013 Right Angola 26.9 992 n / a 5,769 2013 Right Antigua & Barbuda 6.7 20 n / a 6 2013 Left Argentina 13.6 24.3 n / a 5,619 2013 Right Armenia 18.3 18.2 n / a 546 2013 Right Australia 5.4 7.3 5.2 1,252 2013 Left Austria 5.4 7.1 5.8 455 2013 Right Azerbaijan 10.0 83 n / a 943 2013 Right Bahamas 13.8 36 n / a 52 2013 Left Bahrain 8.0 19.6 n / a 107 2013 Right Bangladesh 13.6 1020.6 n / a 21,316 2013 Left Barbados 6.7 16.9 n / a 19 2013 Left Belarus 13.7 32.9 n / a 1,282 2013 Right Belgium 6.7 10.7 7.3 746 2013 Right Belize 24.4 26 n / a 81 2013 Right Benin 27.7 8177.2 n / a 2,855 2013 Right Bhutan 15.1 167.2 n / a 114 2013 Left Bolivia 23.2 205.2 n / a 3,476 2013 Right Bosnia and Herzegovina 17.7 76.7 n / a 676 2013 Right Botswana 23.6 91.6 n / a 477 2013 Left Brazil 23.4 50.3 55.9 41,059 2013 Right Bulgaria 8.3 17.2 n / a 601 2013 Right Burkina Faso 30.0 328.1 n / a 5,072 2013 Right Cape Verde 26.1 229 n / a 130 2013 Right Cambodia 17.4 107.2 n / a 2,635 2013 Right Cameroon 27.6 1385.1 n / a 6,136 2013 Right Canada 6.0 9.5 6.2 2,114 2013 Right Central African Republic 32.4 4336.5 n / a 1,495 2013 Right Chad 24.1 497 n / a 3,089 2013 Right Chile 12.4 51.1 n / a 2,179 2013 Right China 18.8 104.5 n / a 261,367 2013 Right Colombia 16.8 83.3 n / a 8,107 2013 Right Congo 26.4 1063 n / a 1,174 2013 Right Cook Islands 24.2 40.2 n / a 2013 Left Costa Rica 13.9 38.4 n / a 676 2013 Right Ivory Coast 24.2 828.9 n / a 4,924 2013 Right Croatia 9.2 21.1 n / a 395 2013 Right Cuba 7.5 133.7 n / a 840 2013 Right Cyprus 5.2 9.2 n / a 59 2013 Left Czech Republic 6.1 8.5 13.9 654 2013 Right Democratic Republic of the Congo 33.2 6405.4 n / a 22,419 2013 Right Denmark 3.5 6.7 196 2013 Right Dominica 15.3 44.7 n / a 11 2013 Left Dominican Republic 29.3 94.9 n / a 3,052 2013 Right Ecuador 20.1 183.8 n / a 3,164 2013 Right Egypt 12.8 148.7 n / a 10,466 2013 Right El Salvador 21.1 163.7 n / a 1,339 2013 Right Eritrea 24.1 2171.5 n / a 1,527 2013 Right Estonia 7.0 11.8 n / a 90 2013 Right Ethiopia 25.3 4984.3 n / a 23,837 2013 Right Fiji 5.8 58.9 n / a 51 2013 Left Finland 4.8 4.4 4.8 258 2013 Right France 5.1 7.6 5.8 3,268 2013 Right Gabon 22.9 196.4 n / a 383 2013 Right Gambia 29.4 998.7 n / a 544 2013 Right Georgia 11.8 54 n / a 514 2013 Right Germany 4.3 6.8 4.9 3,540 2013 Right Ghana 26.2 443.1 n / a 6,789 2013 Right Greece 9.1 12.6 n / a 1,013 2013 Right Guatemala 19.0 114.7 n / a 2,939 2013 Right Guinea 27.3 9462.5 n / a 3,211 2013 Right Guinea - Bissau 27.5 751.9 n / a 468 2013 Right Guyana 17.3 864.4 n / a 138 2013 Left Honduras 17.4 1021.7 n / a 1,408 2013 Right Hungary 7.7 20.7 n / a 765 2013 Right Iceland 4.6 6.1 4.7 15 2013 Right India 16.6 130.1 n / a 238,562 2013 Left Indonesia 15.3 36.7 n / a 38,279 2013 Left Iran 32.1 92.7 n / a 24,896 2013 Right Iraq 20.2 151.2 n / a 6,826 2013 Right Ireland 4.1 7.6 3.9 188 2013 Left Israel 3.6 9.7 5.3 277 2013 Right Italy 6.1 7.3 n / a 3,753 2013 Right Jamaica 11.5 61.7 n / a 320 2013 Left Japan 4.7 6.5 8 5,971 2013 Left Jordan 26.3 151.4 n / a 1,913 2013 Right Kazakhstan 24.2 101.4 n / a 3,983 2013 Right Kenya 29.1 640.7 n / a 12,891 2013 Left Kiribati 2.9 86.9 n / a 2013 Left Kuwait 18.7 34.2 n / a 629 2013 Right Kyrgyzstan 22.0 127.3 n / a 1,220 2013 Right Laos 14.3 67.5 n / a 971 2013 Right Latvia 10.0 24.8 n / a 205 2013 Right Lebanon 22.6 64.8 n / a 1,088 2013 Right Lesotho 28.2 474.8 n / a 584 2013 Left Liberia 33.7 133.4 n / a 1,448 2013 Right Libya 73.4 128.2 n / a 4,554 2013 Right Lithuania 10.6 16.1 n / a 320 2013 Right Luxembourg 8.7 10.7 n / a 46 2013 Right Macedonia 9.4 49.1 n / a 198 2013 Right Madagascar 28.4 2963 n / a 6,506 2013 Right Malawi 35.0 1310.4 n / a 5,732 2013 Left Malaysia 24.0 29.9 12.6 7,129 2013 Left Maldives 3.5 19.5 n / a 12 2013 Left Mali 25.6 1352.5 n / a 3,920 2013 Right Malta 5.1 6.8 n / a 22 2013 Left Marshall Islands 5.7 141.8 n / a 2013 Right Mauritania 24.5 228.7 n / a 952 2013 Right Mauritius 12.2 35.6 n / a 158 2013 Left Mexico 12.3 43 n / a 15,062 2013 Right Federated States of Micronesia 1.9 24 n / a 2013 Right Monaco - - n / a 0 2013 Right Mongolia 21.0 88.4 n / a 597 2013 Right Montenegro 10.5 31.1 n / a 65 2016 Right Morocco 18.0 209 n / a 6,870 2013 Right Mozambique 31.6 1507 n / a 8,173 2013 Left Myanmar 20.3 250.8 n / a 10,809 2013 Right Namibia 23.9 196.4 n / a 551 2013 Left Nepal 17.0 399.8 n / a 4,713 2013 Left Netherlands 3.4 6 4.5 574 2013 Right New Zealand 6.0 8.4 6.7 272 2013 Left Nicaragua 15.3 164.3 n / a 931 2013 Right Niger 26.4 1491.1 n / a 4,706 2013 Right Nigeria 20.5 615.4 n / a 35,621 2013 Right Norway 3.8 5.2 4.4 192 2013 Right Oman 25.4 85.3 n / a 924 2013 Right Pakistan 14.2 283.9 n / a 25,781 2013 Left Palau 4.8 14.1 n / a 2013 Right Panama 10.0 38.4 n / a 386 2013 Right Papua New Guinea 16.8 1306.5 n / a 1,232 2013 Left Paraguay 20.7 114.7 n / a 1,408 2013 Right Peru 13.9 99.3 n / a 4,234 2013 Right Philippines 10.5 135 n / a 10,379 2013 Right Poland 10.3 15.8 n / a 3,931 2013 Right Portugal 7.8 13.7 n / a 828 2013 Right Qatar 15.2 50.9 n / a 330 2013 Right South Korea 9.5 21.2 16 4,899 2016 Right Republic of Moldova 12.5 61.8 n / a 437 2013 Right Romania 8.7 31.4 n / a 1,881 2013 Right Russia 18.9 53.4 n / a 27,025 2013 Right Rwanda 32.1 3521.1 n / a 3,782 2013 Right Saint Lucia 18.1 2103.3 n / a 33 2013 Left Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8.2 31.7 n / a 9 2013 Left Samoa 15.8 171.9 n / a 30 2013 Left San Marino 3.2 1.8 n / a 2013 Right São Tomé and Príncipe 31.1 5454.5 n / a 60 2013 Right Saudi Arabia 27.4 119.7 n / a 7,898 2013 Right Senegal 27.2 956.4 n / a 3,844 2013 Right Serbia 10.4 34.5 n / a 735 2013 Right Seychelles 8.6 43 n / a 8 2013 Left Sierra Leone 27.3 2414.2 n / a 1,661 2013 Right Singapore 3.6 20.2 n / a 197 2013 Left Slovakia 6.6 13.7 n / a 360 2013 Right Slovenia 6.4 9.5 7.6 132 2013 Right Solomon Islands 19.2 240 n / a 108 2013 Left Somalia 25.4 4480.5 n / a 2,664 2013 Right South Africa 25.1 133.9 n / a 13,273 2013 Left Spain 3.7 5.3 7.8 1,730 2013 Right Sri Lanka 17.4 70.9 n / a 3,691 2013 Left Sudan 24.3 2872.8 n / a 9,221 2013 Right Suriname 19.1 49.7 n / a 103 2013 Left Swaziland 24.2 1667.4 n / a 303 2013 Left Sweden 2.8 4.7 3.5 272 2013 Right Switzerland 3.3 4.7 4.3 269 2013 Right Tajikistan 18.8 374.9 n / a 1,543 2013 Right Thailand 36.2 74.6 n / a 24,237 2013 Left Timor - Leste 16.6 295.8 n / a 188 2013 Left Togo 31.1 3653.4 n / a 2,123 2013 Right Tonga 7.6 98.1 n / a 8 2013 Left Trinidad and Tobago 14.1 58.9 n / a 189 2013 Left Tunisia 24.4 154.4 n / a 2,679 2013 Right Turkey 8.9 37.3 n / a 6,687 2013 Right Turkmenistan 17.4 107.8 n / a 914 2009 Right Uganda 27.4 836.8 n / a 10,280 2013 Left United Arab Emirates 10.9 38.2 n / a 1,021 2013 Right United Kingdom 2.9 5.1 3.6 1,827 2013 Left Tanzania 32.9 1073.7 n / a 16,211 2013 Left Ukraine 13.5 35.3 n / a 5,099 2012 Right United States 10.6 12.9 7.1 34,064 2013 Right Uruguay 16.6 28.5 n / a 567 2013 Right Uzbekistan 11.2 n / a 3,240 2013 Right Vanuatu 16.6 300 n / a 42 2013 Right Vietnam 24.5 55 n / a 22,419 2013 Right Yemen 21.5 436.6 n / a 5,248 2013 Right Zambia 24.7 670.9 n / a 3,586 2013 Left Zimbabwe 28.2 429.8 n / a 3,985 2013 Left See also Epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions Traffic collision Road - traffic safety Smeed 's law List of countries by vehicles per capita Nations : List of motor vehicle deaths in Australia by year List of motor vehicle deaths in Japan by year List of motor vehicle deaths in U.S. by year List of road traffic accidents deaths in Republic of Ireland by year General : List of causes of death by rate Notes Jump up ^ The following groupings / assumptions were made : France includes the overseas departments as well as overseas collectivities. The United Kingdom includes the Crown dependencies as well as the overseas territories. The United States of America includes the insular areas. The Netherlands includes Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. Denmark includes Greenland and the Faroe islands. China includes the SARs of Hong Kong and Macao. References Jump up ^ Data from World Health Organization Estimated Deaths 2012 ^ Jump up to : WHO, ed. ( 2015 ). `` Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015 '' ( PDF ) ( official report ). Geneva : World Health Organisation ( WHO ). pp. vii, 1 -- 14, 75ff ( countries ), 264 -- 271 ( table A2 ), 316 -- 332 ( table A10 ). ISBN 978 92 4 156506 6. Retrieved 2016 - 01 - 27. Tables A2 & A10, data from 2013 ^ Jump up to : WHO, ed. ( 2013 ). `` Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013 : supporting a decade of action '' ( PDF ) ( official report ). Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organisation ( WHO ). pp. vii, 1 -- 8, 53ff ( countries ), 244 -- 251 ( table A2 ), 296 -- 303 ( table A10 ). 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Question: countries with the highest road traffic death rate
Answer: Africa