List of motor vehicle deaths in Australia by year
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This is a list of motor vehicle deaths in Australia
by year.
This list shows the annual number of road fatalities (road deaths or Road toll
) per capita per year, per vehicle and per vehicle-km in the year the data was collected. The list includes all road users such as drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
by year.
This list shows the annual number of road fatalities (road deaths or Road toll
Road toll
Road toll is the term used in some countries for the number of deaths caused annually by road accidents.The term is in common and official use in Australia and New Zealand.-Australia:In Australia the road toll is reported at a state level...
) per capita per year, per vehicle and per vehicle-km in the year the data was collected. The list includes all road users such as drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.
| Year | Total road fatalities | Road fatalities per 100,000 population per year |
Road fatalities per 100,000 motor vehicles |
Road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 3,798 | ||||
| 1975 | 26.59 | ||||
| 1976 | 35.5 | ||||
| 1979 | 31.5 | ||||
| 1980 | 22.27 | 43.2 | |||
| 1982 | 25.6 | ||||
| 1984 | 2,822 | ||||
| 1985 | 2,941 | 18.63 | 32.3 | 20.9 | |
| 1986 | 2,888 | ||||
| 1987 | 2,772 | ||||
| 1988 | 2,887 | 18.8 | |||
| 1989 | 2,801 | ||||
| 1990 | 2,331 | 13.66 | 23.1 | ||
| 1991 | 2,113 | 14.1 | |||
| 1992 | 1,974 | 11.28 | |||
| 1993 | 1,953 | 11.05 | |||
| 1994 | 1,928 | 10.80 | 18.0 | ||
| 1995 | 2,017 | 11.16 | 18.4 | 12.1 | |
| 1996 | 1,970 | 10.76 | 17.3 | ||
| 1997 | 1,767 | 9.54 | 15.1 | ||
| 1998 | 1,755 | 9.38 | 14.5 | 10.5 | |
| 1999 | 1,764 | 9.32 | 14.4 | ||
| 2000 | 1,817 | 9.49 | 14.6 | 9.8 | |
| 2001 | 1,737 | 8.95 | 13.9 | 9.1 | |
| 2002 | 1,715 | 8.73 | 13.4 | 8.9 | |
| 2003 | 1,621 | 8.15 | 12.3 | 8.0 | |
| 2004 | 1,583 | 7.86 | 11.7 | 8.0 | |
| 2005 | 1,627 | 7.98 | 11.7 | 7.9 | |
| 2006 | 1,602 | 7.72 | 11.2 | 7.7 | |
| 2007 | 1,603 | 7.62 | 10.8 | 7.4 | |
| 2008 | 1,464 | 6.85 | 9.6 | ||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2010 | 1,368 |