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People killed in road accidents

Road traffic deaths. By sex and type of road 2023
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Men
Motorways 52 .. 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 102 .. 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 228 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Women
Motorways 9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 23 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 28 .. 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 60 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total
Motorways 61 345 1,661
Urban roads 97 518 7,347
Rural roads 130 943 10,132
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 0 1,240
Total roads 288 1,806 20,380
Units: Number.
Source Catalunya: Departament d'Interior i Seguretat Pública. Font Espanya i Unió Europea: 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 2023
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Men
Motorways 1.3 .. 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 2.6 .. 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 5.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Women
Motorways 0.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urban roads 0.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Rural roads 0.7 .. 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 1.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total
Motorways 0.8 0.7 0.4 (e) Estimated value
Urban roads 1.2 1.1 1.6 (e) Estimated value
Rural roads 1.6 2.0 2.3 (e) Estimated value
Unknown .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 0.0 0.3 (e) Estimated value
Total roads 3.6 3.7 4.5 (e) Estimated value
Units: Number per every 100,000 inhabitants.
Source Catalunya: Departament d'Interior i Seguretat Pública. Font Espanya i Unió Europea: Eurostat
(e) Estimated value.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Indicador ODS Indicator 11.40 from the EU Sustainable Development Goals

Last update: October 14, 2025.

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.