The fact sheet Dutch road safety in an international perspective has been updated. In terms of the number of road deaths, the Netherlands is among the top ten: eighth of 38 EU and OECD countries when looking at traffic mortality (the number of road deaths set against the number of inhabitants) and tenth of 23 EU and OECD countries when looking at fatality risk (number of road deaths per distance travelled).
Although the Netherlands is still doing relatively well in terms of mortality and death risk, the developments in the number of road deaths between 2009 and 2018, indicate the Netherlands is among the worst-performing countries.
