The first decade of the 21st century saw the lowest levels of road deaths since systematic reporting began in most member countries of the International Transport Forum. Overall, the number of people killed on roads in 2013 declined by 5% in the 34 countries for which provisional data are available, a continuation of the positive trend observed in the previous two decades. Only one of those 34 countries reported an overall increase of its road fatalities between 1995 and 2013. In countries with low numbers of people killed on the roads, relatively small changes in fatalities have large impacts on figures for annual change (particularly marked with Iceland and Luxembourg). Germany and Sweden, which recorded large increases in fatalities in 2011, continued to show in 2013, results more in line with long run trends with improvements respectively 7.3% and 7.7%. (Author/publisher)
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