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This ranking normalises road fatalities by how much a country actually drives. Instead of asking “how many people die per resident,” it asks “how many people die per distance travelled.” That makes it one of the clearest cross-country indicators of fatality risk per kilometre.
Important: numbers come from official road death counts paired with officially estimated vehicle-kilometres. Where multi-year averages are used, they reduce one-year volatility but can differ from a single-year snapshot.
Deaths per 1bn vehicle-km. Coverage is limited to countries with publicly available vkm estimates.
| Rank | Country | Deaths per 1bn vkm | Data period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norway | 2.3 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 2 | Iceland | 2.3 | 2021 |
| 3 | Sweden | 2.7 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 4 | Denmark | 2.9 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 5 | United Kingdom (Great Britain) | 3.3 | 2021 |
| 6 | Slovakia | 3.4 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 7 | Ireland | 3.4 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 8 | Switzerland | 3.6 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 9 | Slovenia | 3.7 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 10 | Germany | 3.9 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 11 | Finland | 4.2 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 12 | Spain | 4.4 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 13 | Canada | 4.4 | 2021 |
| 14 | Austria | 4.5 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 15 | Australia | 4.6 | 2021 |
| 16 | Estonia | 4.9 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 17 | Netherlands | 5.2 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 18 | Japan | 5.2 | 2021 |
| 19 | France | 5.3 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 20 | Israel | 5.5 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 21 | New Zealand | 6.8 | 2021 |
| 22 | Italy | 6.7 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 23 | Korea | 8.2 | 2021 |
| 24 | Portugal | 8.3 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 25 | United States | 8.5 | 2021 |
| 26 | Poland | 8.7 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 27 | Czechia | 9.0 | 2021–2023 avg |
| 28 | Croatia | 9.2 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 29 | Latvia | 9.8 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 30 | Lithuania | 9.8 | 2022–2024 avg |
| 31 | Hungary | 10.9 | 2021–2023 avg |
Limited to countries with available vehicle-km estimates.
| Rank | Country | Deaths per 1bn vkm |
|---|
Horizontal bars (ascending). If the chart fails to render, a fallback list is shown instead.
This section explains what the metric means, what changes when you normalise by distance, and why a full global Top 100 is not feasible with public data.
Per-capita and per-distance rankings can diverge because driving exposure differs. Large geographies, commuting intensity, and transport mode mix (car vs motorcycle vs public/active travel) can all change the denominator.
Formula
Deaths per 1bn vehicle-km = road deaths ÷ (vehicle-km travelled / 1,000,000,000).
Displayed values are rounded. The page is labelled “2025 edition”, but the underlying period depends on source availability: primarily latest three-year averages where both deaths and vehicle-km are available, with 2021 used for additional OECD/ITF IRTAD members where needed.
Vehicle-km counts how far vehicles travel. Passenger-km counts how far people travel (and depends on occupancy). Road safety exposure is often assessed with vehicle-km for driving risk and with passenger-km for modal comparisons.
Per-capita depends on population; per-distance depends on kilometres driven. Countries with high driving exposure can look better per-capita but worse per-distance, and vice versa.
Because comparable national vehicle-km estimates are not publicly available for most countries. StatRanker only includes countries where both road deaths and vehicle-km are available from official sources.
It reduces volatility (weather, shocks, one-off events) but can mask recent changes. Use the methodology notes and sources to understand the covered period for each country.
When new official road death totals and updated vehicle-km estimates are released. Updates depend on publication schedules of the underlying sources.
Provides road deaths, vehicle-km (3-year averages) and computed deaths per billion vehicle-km for covered countries.
Used for additional IRTAD members where recent vehicle-km tables are not publicly available elsewhere (deaths per billion vehicle-km for 2021 in the report figure).
Population is used on StatRanker for related per-capita indicators and cross-metric comparisons where applicable.
Disclaimer: This page is informational. Differences in vehicle-km estimation scope (e.g., excluded vehicle types) can affect comparability. Use the sources and notes to interpret results responsibly.
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