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I posted that in another thread, but it also fits here to provide a broader picture maybe.
Road traffic death rate (per 100 000 population) according to WHO:
- Africa: 19
- Eastern Mediterranean: 16
- South-East Asia: 16
- Western Pacific: 15
- Americas: 14
- Europe: 7
According to the WHO, a road traffic injuries report says:
- Approximately 1.19 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
- Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years.
- 92% of the world's fatalities on the roads occur in low- and middle-income countries, even though these countries have around 60% of the world's vehicles.
- More than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
- Road traffic crashes cost most countries 3% of their gross domestic product.
Yeah, sorry, that's right.
Here we go: Road traffic death rate (per 100 000 population) according to WHO:
- Africa: 19
- Eastern Mediterranean: 16
- South-East Asia: 16
- Western Pacific: 15
- Americas: 14
- Europe: 7
According to the WHO, a road traffic injuries report says:
- Approximately 1.19 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
- Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years.
- 92% of the world's fatalities on the roads occur in low- and middle-income countries, even though these countries have around 60% of the world's vehicles.
- More than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
- Road traffic crashes cost most countries 3% of their gross domestic product.
Yeah, Europe, Australia, and Canada show the lowest numbers also here, though.
Addition:
According to the WHO (which is source of the Wikipedia map), a road traffic injuries report says:
- Approximately 1.19 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
- Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years.
- 92% of the world's fatalities on the roads occur in low- and middle-income countries, even though these countries have around 60% of the world's vehicles.
- More than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
- Road traffic crashes cost most countries 3% of their gross domestic product.
And:
Road traffic death rate (per 100 000 population) according to WHO:
- Africa: 19
- Eastern Mediterranean: 16
- South-East Asia: 16
- Western Pacific: 15
- Americas: 14
- Europe: 7
Just to get the broader picture, here is a world map displaying the deaths from road injuries.
The number of deaths from road injuries appears to be highest in China and India, Europe is among the regions with lowest numbers.
Just to get the broader picture, here is a world map displaying the deaths from road injuries.
The number of deaths from road injuries appears to be highest in China and India, Europe is among the regions with lowest numbers.
I’ve seen a few YT videos that tell you the exact opposite.
So you suggest that speed limits would increase traffic deaths? Is this right? Where are these YT videos?
At the time of this writing, the number of victims in Kyiv has increased to 82 people, including at least 10 children, five of them in hospitals, said head of the city's military administration Tymur Tkachenko.
"... A 6-year-old boy died in an ambulance. He was not pulled out of the other world. At least 10 children injured, five of them in hospitals. The Russians did it. A girl, 5 months old, wounded — she was targeted by the Russians," he wrote on Telegram, noting that the data are not final.
At the time of this writing, the number of victims in Kyiv has increased to 82 people, including at least 10 children, five of them in hospitals, said head of the city's military administration Tymur Tkachenko.
"... A 6-year-old boy died in an ambulance. He was not pulled out of the other world. At least 10 children injured, five of them in hospitals. The Russians did it. A girl, 5 months old, wounded — she was targeted by the Russians," he wrote on Telegram, noting that the data are not final.
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This article is rubbish at best (and Chinese and Russian propaganda at worst).
The EU empire made that decision in late October 2024. The message was: given that we’re no longer capable of expanding into the Chinese domestic market with our electric vehicles, and seeing as affordable “Made in China” Build Your Dreams (BYD) electric cars are about to flood our own consumer markets ...
Aside from calling the EU an "empire" being false and disrespectful, the sentence doesn't reflect economic reality.
- First, it is false that Europeans are "no longer capable of expanding into the Chinese domestic market." The Chinese government prohibits the presence of European industries in its domestic markets through a wide range of protective measures.
For example, if Europeans want to set up a subsidiary in China, they need a Chinese partner that would then own the majority of the joint venture (this applies to all non-Chinese firms active in China, with the only exemption being Tesla, btw.). So the focus is not on European capability, but rather China's economic policy that prevent foreign companies from being successful in China.
- Second, and supposedly more important, it discredits the author when referring to "affordable 'Made in China' Build Your Dream (BYD) electric cars" without mentioning that these dream cars are so affordable because of forced and coerced labour in Chinese factories, may they be in China or abroad. One recent example for this is Brazil, which [sued China carmaker BYD over the company's 'slave-like' conditions](sues China carmaker BYD over 'slave-like' conditions).
It is noteworthy that China is among the countries which lobbied most against the EU's supply chain law as the government in Beijing and Chinese companies apparently have no interest in higher transparency.
Given that large segments of the arms spending will fill the coffers of the biggest weapons manufacturers, which happen to be American, this amounts to a major military-Keynesian stimulus package — for the United States.
Although this is true for now, the article doesn't mention that the EU does invest in its own weapons manufacturing in the coming years to reduce its dependency from non-European suppliers. A notable partner in this respect is obviously Ukraine, which, for example, launched a joint weapons production with international partners just at the start of July.
More important in that respect is the author's critique on European Nato partners' target to spend 5% of the GDP for military, while at the same time playing down the threat posed by Russia and China to European security. Both countries - Russia and China - are heavily interfering in European politics, e.g., by supporting the European far-right and far-left across all countries. It is noteworthy that around a third of the 5% GDP spending is reserved for measures outside of traditional security and military. This comprises protection measures against arson attacks, undersea cable attacks, cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns, and similar criminal activities that have been increasing in recent years all across Europe, and in which Russia and China have been heavily involved according to European intel.
This whole article appears to be a cheap propaganda rant published by a biased media outlet that is ignoring facts because they don't align with the publisher's desired narratives. Being publicly 'leftist' and not owned by corporate media does not guarantee good journalism.
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This Current Affairs is one of these magazines where you know what you get before you click the link, similar to 'media' outlets like Jacobin. This serves a propaganda purpose for anti-democratic regimes only, it's not aiming at publishing independent research.