World Bank report: India accounts for 11 pc of global death in road mishap
World Bank report: India accounts for 11 pc of global death in road mishap
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India accounts for 11 percent of the global death in road accidents, the highest in the world, according to a report by the World Bank. The country accounts for about 4.5 lakh road crashes per annum, in which 1.5 lakh people die.

In the last decade, 13 lakh people died and another 50 lakh got injured on Indian roads, it said. "Considering the under reporting phenomenon and using the crash ratios for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways crash numbers", the report estimates the crash costs at Rs 5.96 lakh crore or 3.14 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

The report puts the road crash and serious injury cost estimate at 7.5 percent of India's GDP or Rs 12.9 lakh crore for 2016. It is more than twice the figure cited by the government at 3 per cent of GDP or Rs 4.3 lakh crore.

A recent study commissioned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways estimates the socio-economic costs of road crashes at Rs 1,47,114 crore in India, which is equivalent to 0.77 percent of the country's GDP. At the individual level, road crash injuries and deaths impose a severe financial burden and push entire households into poverty and the already poor into debt. As per the ministry, 76.2 percent of people who are killed in road crashes are in their prime working-age, 18-45 years.

Globally, road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the eighth leading cause of death. According to the World Bank, the road crash fatality rate is three times higher in low-income countries compared to high-income countries, and statistics from India further reinforce this global trend.

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