NEW YORK ¨C More than 1.3 million people died in road-traffic accidents in 2016, an all-time high, according to the World Health Organization. A world with more people and more cars means more death on the world¡¯s roads.
Those deaths, though, are not evenly distributed. ¡°Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years,¡± notes the WHO¡¯s new Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018. ¡°The burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, in particular those living in developing countries.¡±
There is nuance within those figures. While the total number of such deaths has risen, the death rate per 100,000 people has fallen slightly since 2000.
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