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Road deaths per 100,000 people in Switzerland

2.7

per 100,000 people, 2023

Moderate trust, 77 of 100 The sources disagree: their figures run from 2.32 to 2.75.

Each source by year: per 100,000 people
  • WHO register
  • WHO estimate
  • Eurostat
  • ITF
051015201980199020002010202020251995: WHO register: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-8 to ICD-10 in 1995: road deaths are WHO's road injury list in ICD-10 codes from 1995, and ICD-8 List A item A138 or List B item B047 (E810-E823, motor vehicle accidents) up to 1994.2022: WHO estimate: 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 2023.2011: Eurostat: Eurostat marks 2011 as a break in this time series.

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YearWHO Mortality Database, road traffic deathsWHO Global Health Estimates 2023, road injuryEurostat, road traffic deaths (sdg_11_40)OECD/ITF, annual road fatalities
198019.13––19.72
198118.25––18.33
198218.77––18.65
198318.38––18.05
198417.22––17.09
198514.28––14.03
198615.87––15.9
198714.84––14.54
198814.51––14.33
198914.13––13.91
199013.86––14.21
199112.44––12.65
199210.94––12.13
19939.74––10.42
19949.02––9.71
19959.23––9.83
19967.64––8.71
19977.08––8.28
19987.18––8.4
19996.8––8.16
20007.448.538.28.24
20016.217.837.57.53
20026.17.2477.05
20036.547.667.47.45
20046.147.156.96.91
20054.675.715.55.5
20064.55.134.94.95
20074.65.255.15.09
20084.494.854.74.67
20094.334.664.54.51
20103.94.314.24.18
20113.484.1644.04
20123.454.364.24.24
20133.293.393.33.32
20142.883.0632.97
20152.843.143.13.05
20162.442.642.62.58
20172.82.892.72.72
20182.712.812.72.74
20192.12.272.22.18
20202.182.722.62.63
20212.182.382.32.3
20222.422.842.72.74
20232.322.752.72.66
2024––2.82.8
2025–––2.39

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Switzerland among 204 countries

189 have a higher figure and 14 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2010 to 2025.

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
Switzerland
When
2023 (one year, not an average)

The Eurostat figure (2023). When sources differ, we show the middle one, with better sources counting more.

Where the number comes from (4 sources)
SourceFigure and yearDefinitionQualityCounts for
WHO Mortality Database, road traffic deathsWorld Health Organization (WHO) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-25
2.322023
Registered deaths whose underlying cause is a road traffic injury, all ages and both sexes, divided by UN World Population Prospects 2024 population for 1 July, because WHO's population file has no figure for this year.

On WHO's road injury list (GHE 2023 methods paper, Annex Table A, cause 1530, note j). Countries reporting 4-character ICD-10 codes (lists 104, 10M): V01-V04 and V06 .1-.9; V09.2-.3; V10-V14 and V20-V28 .3-.9; V15-V19 and V29-V79 .4-.9; V80.3-.5; V81.1; V82.1, .8-.9; V83-V86 .0-.3; V87.0-.9; V89.2-.3, .9; V99; X59.4; Y32; Y85. Countries reporting 3-character codes (list 103): V01-V04, V06, V09-V80, V87, V89, V99, Y32, Y85, which also take in some codes the 4-character list leaves out. Codes in this year's file: ICD-10 4-character codes. No 30-day limit: a death counts when the certificate gives this cause. National rows only. Year rule: the WHO register, Eurostat and ITF lines choose first. Those with data from 2021 on take the latest such year they all have, and a line that ends earlier keeps its own latest year; with no shared year from 2021 on, each keeps its own latest. WHO's estimate is set afterwards: if those lines all landed on one year from 2021 on it takes that year, capped at 2023 where it ends, and otherwise it takes 2023. So a row can show different years even where its series share an earlier year. This row: WHO register 2023, WHO estimate 2023, Eurostat 2023, ITF 2023. The yearly series also covers years before ICD-10, which count ICD-8 List A item A138 or List B item B047 (E810-E823, motor vehicle accidents), with population from the same sources.

Raw files: morticd10_part1-6.zip (206 deaths, of which 13 are code Y85 and 0 are code Y32, road traffic injuries of unknown intent) and WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz (https://population.un.org/wpp/). WHO publishes the data as the country sent them and does not adjust for incomplete registration.

4 of 5 checks
  • Yes: Method and definitions published. WHO publishes the file layout, ICD code lists and data notes in its documentation.
  • Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official cause-of-death statistics sent to WHO by national authorities.
  • Yes: Full count or representative sample. Civil registration counts every registered, medically certified death, not a sample.
  • Yes: Raw data downloadable. Raw death and population files are free downloads.
  • No: No known break or quality problem. Recorded in the displayed series: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-8 to ICD-10 in 1995: road deaths are WHO's road injury list in ICD-10 codes from 1995, and ICD-8 List A item A138 or List B item B047 (E810-E823, motor vehicle accidents) up to 1994.
36%
WHO Global Health Estimates 2023, road injuryWorld Health Organization (WHO) · Model-based estimateRetrieved 2026-11-02
2.752023
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: the WHO register, Eurostat and ITF lines choose first. Those with data from 2021 on take the latest such year they all have, and a line that ends earlier keeps its own latest year; with no shared year from 2021 on, each keeps its own latest. WHO's estimate is set afterwards: if those lines all landed on one year from 2021 on it takes that year, capped at 2023 where it ends, and otherwise it takes 2023. So a row can show different years even where its series share an earlier year. This row: WHO register 2023, WHO estimate 2023, Eurostat 2023, ITF 2023.

Raw file: ghe_full_road_injury.json (WHO API, GHE_FULL table). WHO gives 244 deaths for this year, with an uncertainty range of 196 to 296.

3 of 5 checks
  • Yes: Method and definitions published. WHO publishes the methods paper and the road safety report that explain the estimates.
  • Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. WHO's official estimates, using nationally reported data.
  • No: Full count or representative sample. A modelled estimate, not a count.
  • Yes: Raw data downloadable. The whole table is free through WHO's public data API.
  • No: No known break or quality problem. Recorded in the displayed series: WHO extrapolated 2022 and 2023 from the 2021 estimates, using available death registers and cause fractions from GBD 2023, and did not use its regression model's estimates for 2020 and 2021, because of the pandemic.
27%
Eurostat, road traffic deaths (sdg_11_40)Eurostat · Administrative recordsRetrieved 2026-11-02 · Data (API)
2.72023
People killed in road accidents who die within 30 days of the crash: drivers and passengers of motorised vehicles and pedal cycles, and pedestrians.

Countries report national crash records to the European Commission's CARE database; correction factors are applied where a country did not use the 30-day definition. Divided by average population, as Eurostat publishes it, to one decimal. Eurostat says national authorities compile these data (police, ministries, statistical authorities) and does not say which for this country, so it is typed as an administrative record. Year rule: the WHO register, Eurostat and ITF lines choose first. Those with data from 2021 on take the latest such year they all have, and a line that ends earlier keeps its own latest year; with no shared year from 2021 on, each keeps its own latest. WHO's estimate is set afterwards: if those lines all landed on one year from 2021 on it takes that year, capped at 2023 where it ends, and otherwise it takes 2023. So a row can show different years even where its series share an earlier year. This row: WHO register 2023, WHO estimate 2023, Eurostat 2023, ITF 2023.

Raw file: sdg_11_40.json (236 deaths).

4 of 5 checks
  • Yes: Method and definitions published. Eurostat publishes reference metadata with the definition and source.
  • Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics, reported by national authorities under a Council Decision.
  • Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of the deaths in national crash records, not a sample.
  • Yes: Raw data downloadable. Free through the Eurostat dissemination API.
  • No: No known break or quality problem. Eurostat marks in the displayed series: break in time series 2011.
36%
OECD/ITF, annual road fatalitiesOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) · Administrative recordsRetrieved 2026-11-02 · Data (API)
2.662023
People killed in road crashes within 30 days of the crash, as ITF's dataset describes them.

Divided by UN World Population Prospects 2024 population for 1 July (estimates to 2023, medium projection after), so the whole series has one denominator. ITF's dataset does not say which authority collects the figure, so it is typed as an administrative record. Year rule: the WHO register, Eurostat and ITF lines choose first. Those with data from 2021 on take the latest such year they all have, and a line that ends earlier keeps its own latest year; with no shared year from 2021 on, each keeps its own latest. WHO's estimate is set afterwards: if those lines all landed on one year from 2021 on it takes that year, capped at 2023 where it ends, and otherwise it takes 2023. So a row can show different years even where its series share an earlier year. This row: WHO register 2023, WHO estimate 2023, Eurostat 2023, ITF 2023.

Raw files: trends_safety.csv (236 deaths) and WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz (https://population.un.org/wpp/). ITF's own published rate for this year is 2.66. The Eurostat and ITF counts for this country are identical in 25 of the 25 years both have, so they are one set of national figures shown twice and count once.

5 of 5 checks
  • Yes: Method and definitions published. ITF's dataset description gives the 30-day definition; its fuller reports could not be opened by script.
  • Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Statistics published by an intergovernmental body.
  • Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded deaths, not a sample.
  • Yes: Raw data downloadable. Free through the OECD SDMX API.
  • Yes: No known break or quality problem. ITF marks no break, estimate or provisional value in the displayed series.
Not counted

Better and more direct sources count for more. A source that only copies another does not count.

  • WHO register36%
  • WHO estimate27%
  • Eurostat36%

Shown but not counted: ITF (republishes Eurostat).

How the trust score was worked out
Quality29.8 / 40

How well the sources are made

Agreement20.4 / 30

How close the sources are to each other

Independence20 / 20

How many separate ways the number was measured

Freshness7 / 10

How recent the newest data is

How the score works

Who reports it, and since when

Which kinds of source measure this number, which years each one published, and where the reporting stops or has holes.

No source of these kinds: police and justice records.

  • WHO register, 1995: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-8 to ICD-10 in 1995: road deaths are WHO's road injury list in ICD-10 codes from 1995, and ICD-8 List A item A138 or List B item B047 (E810-E823, motor vehicle accidents) up to 1994. source
  • 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
  • Eurostat, 2011: Eurostat marks 2011 as a break in this time series. source
Years each source has a figure here
'01'05'10'15'20'25WHO registerWHO estimateEurostatITF

figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change

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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