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People killed in road accidents

Road traffic deaths. By sex and type of road 2016
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Men
Motorways 15 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 71 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 110 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 196 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Women
Motorways 21 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 29 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 36 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 86 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total
Motorways 36 327 1,920
Urban roads 100 519 9,101
Rural roads 146 964 12,760
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 27
Total roads 282 1,810 23,808
Units: Number.
Source Catalonia: Ministry of Home Affairs. The Catalan Transit Service. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Indicador ODS Indicator 11.40 from the EU Sustainable Development Goals
Road traffic deaths. By sex and type of road. Number per 100,000 inhabitants 2016
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Men
Motorways 0.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 1.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 3.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 5.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Women
Motorways 0.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 0.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 0.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 2.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total
Motorways 0.5 0.7 0.4
Urban roads 1.3 1.1 2.0
Rural roads 2.0 2.1 2.9
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 3.8 3.9 5.3
Units: Number per every 100,000 inhabitants.
Source Catalonia: Ministry of Home Affairs. The Catalan Transit Service. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Indicador ODS Indicator 11.40 from the EU Sustainable Development Goals

Last update: September 23, 2020.

SV

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on Road Safety (SV).

Methodological note

The indicator measures the number of fatalities caused by road accidents, including drivers and passengers of motorised vehicles and pedal cycles as well as pedestrians. Persons dying on road accidents up to 30 days after the occurrence of the accident are counted as road accident fatalities. After these 30 days, the reason for dying might be declared differently. For Member States not using this definition, corrective factors were applied.

The number of road traffic death per 100,000 inhabitants takes as a reference, in the case of Spain and Europe, the average population of the reference year (calculated as the arithmetic mean of the population on 1st January of two consecutive years), while in the case of Catalonia it is used the average population of a specific year.

The data are presented by type of road (motorways, rural roads, urban roads and unknown) and by total roads.