Countries with the Most Traffic-Related Deaths

Two hours ago, I had a semi-truck blindly merge into my lane. One hour ago, I had a deer step out into the road in front of me on a dark highway. Grateful to be taking this quiz rather than being part of the statistics!

Stop taking quizzes while you're driving!

hueheue

Survived much worse than that every day in Saudi Arabia. Worst drivers in the world possibly excepting Egypt.

I would also suggest Syria. Arab males have something wrong in their heads about motor vehicles. But from what I learnt on some documentaries and from friends accounts, India is considered the most dangerous place in the world to drive a car.

I've been on the roads in India. Saudi and Egypt were much worse. I've never been to Syria. But... oddly... in Jordan it seemed like people there were driving the opposite of how they drive in Saudi just south of the border: leisurely rolling down the highway at 40 mph sometimes.

^Can confirm that South Asian countries are pretty bad. Haven't been to India, but the traffic in Bangladesh is an absolute nightmare. People don't care at all about driving safe--it's like a free for all, where whoever goes the fastest and swerves the most (so basically whoever drives the worst) is safest. Rickshaws and mini-taxis everywhere and people walking on the roads just make it worse.

If the DRC's traffic fatality is 6 times worse than Bangladesh, I don't even want to imagine what that's like.

Oh, except looking at it again I've realized that this quiz counts the rate based on number of vehicles. Car ownership is pretty low in Bangladesh (most people, especially in the city, use rickshaws or mini-taxis as I mentioned), so that may be a factor contributing to its high number. When I sort it as a rate per 100,000 inhabitants, Bangladesh actually comes in below the global average and just above the United States.

In contrast, even though Saudi Arabia is not very high on a vehicular basis (I'm guessing due to high rates of car ownership), it's one of the top non-African countries on a population basis.

It's basically just list all the populous developing countries you can think of plus USA.

I think of it on a population basis, focusing on Africa.

Good quiz, if you like this try my 'The 20 Countries with the Lowest 'Road Vehicle Death Rate'

Another reason not to go to the DR Congo.

Is it bigoted to not want to go to a country where there's a good chance you'll be killed in a road traffic collision?

I personally know a woman from Congo who recently had to flee her home with her 3 young children after her husband was murdered and one of her children had part of her leg hacked off by machete. You couldn't PAY me to go to DR Congo. Am I a bigot too, canadry?

Oh, it's the rate that lists number of deaths per 100 000 vehicles! I was thinking that, woah, there are twice as many traffic accident deaths as there are cars in China and India.

Side note: Notice how Saudi Arabia wasn't on the list? It's because women aren't allowed to drive there.

In case you can't tell, I'm joking!!

Not joking: driving in Saudi Arabia is an unending nightmare. I remarked so many times in total earnestness if they were going to ban one sex from driving it should have been the other way around.

yes. And in Egypt I think they try to fit in +3. I was only driving around Cairo for a long weekend and got sideswiped more times than I recall.

Got them all, apart from America lol. I had discounted all the 'western' countries as I assumed road safety, modern cars and the like would mean accidents were lower than in the R.O.W, apparently not.

I know America is a massive Country, in size and population, but that still surprised me.

They've got by far the lowest rate of any country on this list... just high in overall numbers because there are lots of people and lots of cars and Americans like to drive.

Most of them are in africa

Somehow, whenever Tanzania is in a quiz, Kenya is there as well. They seem to be best country buddies.

BFFS

They're right next to each other.

They say Russians are bad drivers, and then there's DRC.

Obviously trying Chad for all the quizzes didn’t get them past level 14

Less traffic laws and more like traffic "guidelines"

witnessed this and worse firsthand.

4 seconds left... lol

A far better stat, but not practically possible, would be fatalities per mile traveled. In most countries of Africa, only a few rich people own cars. Other people, to the extent that they travel by motor vehicles, do so mostly on very dangerous taxis or buses that log many many miles over their lifetimes. So if we can't have that data, we should at least take the numbers in a few places (like DRC and Ethiopia) with a grain of salt. I'm not saying the roads are safe. (I know from personal experience, they aren't.) But oddly, as others have mentioned, Jordanian drivers are an island of sanity. Why is that?

Nobody commenting on how ridiculous it is that the rate for the DRC is 6,400/100,000 (i.e. 6.4%)?

I can't help but notice that these numbers correlate strongly with a country's population size, even though they're by 100,000 vehicles. I wonder why that is.