16.14
per 100,000 people, 2023
Low trust, 52 of 100 Only one source (WHO estimate), so it cannot be checked against another.
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| Year | WHO Global Health Estimates 2023, road injury |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 25.57 |
| 2001 | 24.48 |
| 2002 | 24.37 |
| 2003 | 24.63 |
| 2004 | 23.84 |
| 2005 | 23.13 |
| 2006 | 21.61 |
| 2007 | 21.03 |
| 2008 | 20.67 |
| 2009 | 21.06 |
| 2010 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 22.26 |
| 2012 | 21.94 |
| 2013 | 21.75 |
| 2014 | 20.89 |
| 2015 | 20.51 |
| 2016 | 20.05 |
| 2017 | 20.11 |
| 2018 | 19.78 |
| 2019 | 19.39 |
| 2020 | 19.01 |
| 2021 | 17.67 |
| 2022 | 16.97 |
| 2023 | 16.14 |
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Ethiopia among 204 countries
59 have a higher figure and 143 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2010 to 2025.
Ethiopia 16.14
Lowest: Montserrat, 0Highest: Dem. People's Republic of Korea, 53.98
What this number counts
- Counts
- Deaths from road traffic crashes per 100,000 people, counted under each source's own rules
- Where
- Ethiopia
- When
- 2023 (one year, not an average)
Where the number comes from (1 source)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
WHO Global Health Estimates 2023, road injuryWorld Health Organization (WHO) · Model-based estimateRetrieved 2026-11-02 | 16.142023 | WHO's modelled estimate of deaths from road injury (cause 1530), all ages and both sexes, per 100,000 people.For 2000-2021 WHO uses the estimates prepared for its Global status report on road safety 2023, built from death registers and from road deaths reported by governments, with a regression model for countries without eligible registers. WHO extrapolated 2022 and 2023 from them. No 30-day limit. Year rule: this is the only line for this country, so its latest year is used. Raw file: ghe_full_road_injury.json (WHO API, GHE_FULL table). WHO gives 20765 deaths for this year, with an uncertainty range of 12193 to 33084. | 3 of 5 checks
| 100% |
- WHO estimate100%
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality24 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement15 / 30
Unknown with one source, so set to half
- Independence6 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness7 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
No source of these kinds: police and justice records, death and health registers, administrative records.
- Single source: nothing to check it against
- WHO estimate, 2022: From 2022 WHO's estimates are extrapolated from the 2021 estimates of its road safety report, using available death registers and cause fractions from GBD 2023. source
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Why the numbers differ
- The 30-day limit. WHO says its estimates follow ICD-10 and count all deaths in a calendar year that result from a road crash, whatever the time since the crash, unlike many official road traffic records, which use a 30-day definition. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- The definition Eurostat and ITF share: a person killed is anyone dying immediately or within 30 days as a result of an injury accident, excluding suicides. Countries that do not apply the 30-day limit get a conversion coefficient. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Death certificates and road crash figures. WHO's register line counts cause-of-death codes sent by national statistics offices or health ministries. Eurostat and ITF count deaths in road crashes within 30 days. In the 46 countries with both for the same year from 2018 on, the register rate is the higher one in 17, and the median register rate is 0.96 times the Eurostat or ITF rate. (source, retrieved 2026-10-25)
- The Netherlands. CBS builds its road death count from death certificates, files from public prosecutors and Rijkswaterstaat's crash register. ITF's count equals it in 30 of 30 years, so that line shares death certificates with the WHO register line. The values still differ, and both are counted, so they are not two fully independent sources. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Eurostat says police-registered deaths in the Netherlands are under-reported, at around 84% of the national total: 566 in its CARE data against 675 published nationally in 2024. Across countries it says the data are compiled by police, ministries or statistical authorities, so only its Dutch line is typed as police records here. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Where European crash data come from. The European Commission says national data sets enter its CARE database with their national structure and definitions, and that countries have their own registration systems, not always compatible with CARE. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- The Commission's common data structure for that database is also offered as a recommendation for national police road accident data collection reports. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Under-reporting. WHO reports that across countries taking part in its road safety reports, its estimates average 1.7 to 1.8 times the deaths governments report. In a record-linkage study in Lusaka Province, Zambia, it reports police records as about 19% complete, hospital records 12% and vital statistics 14%. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Modelling. WHO's estimate is not a count. Countries with death registration at least 80% complete use those data, and for countries without eligible registers WHO uses a negative binomial regression. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- WHO says road injury deaths in its estimates were adjusted upwards where needed to take account of surveillance data from countries, and that the time series were extrapolated to 2023 using available death registers and cause fractions from GBD 2023. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Extrapolated years. Among the 62 countries with a usable WHO register rate for 2023, the estimate for 2023 is at least 25% above the register rate in 25, including the United States of America (18.38 against 13.07). (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- One set of figures, two publishers. Eurostat and ITF counts match for 31 European countries, identically in 641 of 742 country-years, so one of the two is marked as a copy there and counts once. They differ in Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (566 against 675 in 2024), so both count there. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Which codes count. The register line uses WHO's road injury list, which is finer on 4-character ICD-10 codes than on 3-character ones. Each line's definition gives the codes. Before ICD-10, the series use ICD-9 motor vehicle traffic accidents (E810-E819) and ICD-8 motor vehicle accidents (E810-E823). (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Condensed lists. 6 countries' latest files have only one item for all transport accidents (V01-V99), which also counts rail, water and air deaths, so those lines carry half weight. (source, retrieved 2026-10-25)
- Population. Eurostat divides by the average of two 1 January populations and publishes one decimal. The WHO register line uses WHO's population file. The ITF line here uses UN population, so it can differ slightly from the rate ITF publishes. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Common mistakes
- Comparing a rate per 100,000 people with a rate per billion vehicle-kilometres or per 10,000 road motor vehicles. ITF publishes all three, and each has a different base. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Reading a WHO estimate as a count. For countries without eligible death registers it comes from a regression model. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
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Cite as: RealStats, “Road deaths per 100,000 people in Ethiopia”, updated 2026-11-02, with the original sources listed on the page.