Iran vs Iraq: Rivals on the Road 🇮🇷🇮🇶
Iran and Iraq: road deaths per 100,000 people, 2000-2026.
Iran: 26.8 (2000) → 33.3 (2010) → 21.2 (2019) → 18.8 (2026, estimate)
Iraq: 17.0 (2000) → 18.4 (2010) → 20.3 (2019) → 20.5 (2026, estimate)
What the number means: 10 per 100,000 = in a city of 1 million people, 100 people die on the roads every year.
Safer cars, seat belts, helmets, speed cameras, better roads and fast ambulances bring the number down; more motorbikes and crowded roads push it up.
Road deaths per 100,000 people = everyone killed in a road crash in a year (drivers, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists) for every 100,000 people living in the country. WHO estimates correct for deaths the police do not record; for Europe and the USA the official national counts are used (Eurostat, NHTSA).
Data: road deaths per 100,000 people - WHO Global Health Observatory (estimates 2000-2023), Eurostat (European countries, police data 1999-2024), NHTSA (USA, 2000-2024); later years estimated (half of the 6-year trend). Population - World Bank. Full sources and methods in sources_mobility.txt.
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