Countries with the Most Traffic-Related Deaths

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

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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

Less traffic laws and more like traffic "guidelines"

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%)?

Since these are by amount of deaths and not rate you just need to type in the most populous countries, hence they will have the most deaths because of there population.

My two first guesses were CAR and Mad @ gas car. Unfortunately, neither paid off.

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.

Wow, that's incredible. Great quiz. I guess living without a rules-based society, basic infrastructure, and the ability to govern (employ traffic police), really tanks traffic death numbers. Along with medical facilities, and EMT services.

I've got to believe that a tiny percentage of Nigeria, Ethiopia, and DRC, are drivers or own cars. Maybe it's cars killing bicyclists, or rickshaws. Though it seems like if that were the case, it could be easily solved. Guess not.

I don't understand how 6500 people per 100,000 vehicles can be killed in Somalia. Maybe part of it is motorcycles + lawlessness on the roads. And I assume they don't wear helmets.

Oh, maybe it's driving drunk/high as well.

I wonder how much this has to do with the quality/type of vehicles being driven. What percentage of vehicles in each country have airbags/seatbelts that are up to standard?

So driving in Bangladesh and Tanzania is basically just suicide with extra steps.

This should be under the 'Top 20 Countries' tag.

Interesting quiz. I do wonder on the source of some of the data, though. Having worked in a hospital in Tanzania (for a very limited time), I'm actually surprised that their death rate per 100k people would be only a little over twice that of the US, given how many ER cases were motor vehicle accidents.

But the death rate per 100k vehicles makes me think they might be underestimating the number of vehicles. Are they counting all motorcycles,scooters,dirtbikes, etc? That's where an enormous percentage of their deaths come from...

DRC rate: high

Could probably be traced back to Belgium somehow