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The UN General Assembly has designated 2011-2020 as a Decade of Action on Road Safety Worldwide.
According to the Association for Safe International Road Travel, annual global road crash statistics include the following:
Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, an average of 3,287 deaths a day.
An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled.
More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44.
Road traffic crashes rank as the 9th leading cause of death and account for 2.2% of all deaths globally.
Road crashes are the leading cause of death among young people ages 15-29 and the second leading cause of death worldwide among young people ages 5-14.
Each year, nearly 400,000 people under 25 die on the world's roads, on average over 1,000 a day.
Over 90% of all road fatalities occur in low and middle-income countries, which have less than half of the world's vehicles.
Road crashes cost USD $518 billion globally, costing individual countries from 1-2% of their annual GDP.
Road crashes cost low and middle-income countries USD $65 billion annually, exceeding the total amount received in developmental assistance.
Unless action is taken, road traffic injuries are predicted to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030.
For more information, see: http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safety-facts/road-crash-statistics.
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