Table IN-5 shows fuel costs and the contribution to the economy of the transportation and related sectors. Fuel prices vary widely between countries and reflect full costs including applicable taxes. More than 50 percent of gasoline prices in the European countries can be attributed to taxes. While diesel fuel taxes are less than those on gasoline they are substantial by comparison with those imposed in the United States. The contribution of the transport, storage and communication sectors to the economies is surprisingly uniform for all countries except Mexico and the employment portion for the U.S. Table IN-6 provides fatalities and fatality rates for each country.
Fatality rates are lowest for the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. and highest for Mexico.
The data in this section came from reliable published sources which are noted with the individual tables. Ultimately all data came from the source countries. Data collection methods, definitions of terms, and basic political and economic infrastructures vary from country to country. These differences will manifest themselves in many ways within the data items and may not always be apparent. All data in this section should, then, be used with great care and only for general comparisons.