Number of non-fatal injuries caused by a road traffic accident, per 100,000 inhabitants.
Calculation
According to UNECE methodology (see preferred source and remarks), ‘injured’ is defined as any person, who was not killed, but sustained one or more serious or slight injuries as a result of the accident.
Relevant dimensions and subgroups
Country
Calendar year
Sex (see data availability)
Age group (see data availability)
Socio-economic status (see data availability)
Region (according to ISARE recommendations; see data availability)
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) road traffic database
Data availability
The UNECE road traffic database contains data for all 27 EU Member States (and many other countries belonging to the WHO-EURO region). For most country data are available for the period 1993-2008, though some countries are lagging behind a couple of years. Data are not available by sex, age, socio-economic status and/or region. The ISARE project on regional data has collected data for road traffic accidents (indicators ‘number of persons injured or killed in road traffic accidents’, and ‘number of persons injured or killed in road traffic accidents per 100,000 population’).
Data periodicity
Data are updated annually.
Rationale
The EU IDB estimates that road injuries account for 10% of all hospital treated injuries or a total of 4.3 million victims annually. Though preventive measures have been proven effective, resulting in declining incidence rates, large health gains can still be achieved and inequalities between Member States can still be diminished.
Remarks
Rates in the UNECE database are presented per 1,000,000 inhabitants. To enhance comparability with other shortlist indicators, ECHI presents the numbers per 100,000.
Only very limited background information (e.g. on original sources, on comparability) is available in the UN ECE database.
For many Member States data in the UN ECE database from 2005 onwards come from the Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe (CARE).
The UN ECE database provides detailed breakdowns according to accident type, nature of accident, influence of alcohol, location, timing (which week, which day of the week), light condition, road condition, and type of road user.
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