Transport and Covid-19: responses and resources

Road Safety Annual Report 2021: The Impact of Covid-19

Road Safety Annual Report 2021


The ITF Road Safety Annual Report 2021 examines the development of road safety in the year 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. It assesses how the pandemic has affected mobility patterns and impacted the number of road fatalities. The analysis draws on data on road deaths from 34 member countries of the IRTAD Group. These are complemented by the more detailed crash and mobility data gathered via a survey of 24 countries, mobility data from Apple Inc. and data from the Oxford Covid-19 Governmental Response Tracker.

Detailed country profiles are available for download (PDF format) below. They are updated with the latest data as these become available: 

Argentina*
Austria
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Mexico
Morocco
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria**
Norway
Poland
Serbia*
Slovenia
Spain
South Africa*
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay

(* data from 2019 report, ** data from 2018 report)

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