Annual change rate in number of deaths due to road accidents India 2005-2022
The number of deaths due to road accidents across India increased by about 9.4 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year. Each year, about three to five percent of the GDP of the country was invested in road accidents. About 70 percent of accidents involved young Indians. The country has about one percent of the global vehicle population but it accounted for six percent of the world's road traffic accidents.