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People killed in road accidents (11.40)

Road traffic deaths. By sex and type of road 2019
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Men
Motorways 59 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 74 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 105 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown 3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 241 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Women
Motorways 12 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 19 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 30 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown 2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 63 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total
Motorways 71 340 1,932 (p) Provisional value
Urban roads 93 519 8,777 (p) Provisional value
Rural roads 135 896 11,876 (p) Provisional value
Unknown 5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 171 (p) Provisional value
Total roads 304 1,755 22,756
Units: Number.
Source Catalonia: Ministry of Home Affairs. The Catalan Transit Service. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(p) Provisional value.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Road traffic deaths. By sex and type of road. Number per 100,000 inhabitants 2019
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Men
Motorways 1.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 2.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 2.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown 0.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 6.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Women
Motorways 0.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 0.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 0.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Unknown 0.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 1.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total
Motorways 0.9 0.7 0.4 (b) Break in time series
Urban roads 1.2 1.1 2.0 (b) Break in time series
Rural roads 1.8 1.9 2.7 (b) Break in time series
Unknown 0.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total roads 4.0 3.7 5.1 (b) Break in time series
Units: Number per every 100,000 inhabitants.
Source Catalonia: Ministry of Home Affairs. The Catalan Transit Service. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(b) Break in time series.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: July 23, 2021.

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.