Road Safety in the Asia-Pacific Region

Road safety is a sustainable development challenge for the whole world. The global road traffic deaths and rates of road traffic death remain unacceptably high as an estimated 1.35 million road traffic deaths occurred in 2016 which was about 3,700 road traffic deaths a day.1 Globally, road crashes are the 8th leading cause of death for people of all ages and number one cause of death for children and young adults 5-29 years of age. However, the rates of road traffic death remained constant since the beginning of the millennium, which was about 18 road traffic deaths per 100,000 population.

This report summarizes the analyses of the road safety data from the ESCAP member countries fall under the road safety management pillar of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011- 2020). This study considered analyzed data involving different pillars and areas of the The United Nations Global Framewor  Plan of Action 2018. The pillars and areas under the framewor  are shown in Figure 5 of the Appendix 2 of this report.