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The esteemed World Health Organisation (WHO) has taken some time off, away from AIDS, genocide, H1 N1 influenza and malaria, and instead issued some stark findings about the increasingly motorised, car-infested world in which we live. Part of those findings - all 297 pages of them - are a list of the top 10 most dangerous countries in the world to drive a car. But first, more worryingly, the WHO says that by 2030 road crashes will be the fifth-biggest killer of people globally, totalling 3.6 per cent of all deaths - beating lung disease, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. (Crashes were the ninth biggest killer globally in 2004.) The WHO says that 1.4 million people are killed today in road crashes annually.
The worst 10 countries for road death currently are:
10th: Gambia - population 1.7 million, 14,500 cars, 36.6 road deaths per 100,000 people
9th: UAE - population 4.4 million, 1.7 million cars, 37.1 road deaths per 100,000 people
8th: Angola - population 17.0 million, 671,000 cars, 37.7 road deaths per 100,000 people
7th: Niger - population 14.3 million, 76,000 cars, 37.7 road deaths per 100,000 people
6th: Iraq - population 29.0 million, 2.2 million cars, 38.1 road deaths per 100,000 people
5th: Afghanistan - population 27.1 million, 732,000 cars, 39.0 road deaths per 100,000 people
4th: Libyan Arab Jamahrilya - population 6.2 million, 1.8 million cars, 40.5 road deaths per 100,000 people
3rd: Egypt - population 75.5 million, 4.3 million cars, 41.6 road deaths per 100,000 people
2nd: The Cook Islands - population 13,300, 10,700 cars, 45.0 road deaths per 100,000 people
1st: the former Italian colony of Eritrea, on the western flank of the Red Sea (looking across from Africa to the Middle East) - population 4.8 million, 60,800 cars, 48.4 road deaths per 100,000 people. Staggering.
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