SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal description
« Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality. […] However, many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues.»
Swiss target 3.6: By 2020 the number of deaths and seriously injured casualties on Swiss roads will decline.
Significance of the indicator
The indicator shows the number of people killed or seriously injured in road traffic. Physical safety and a sense of security are basic needs in society and have an impact on the quality of life. A reduction in the number of victims, therefore, is a step towards sustainable development.
Help for interpretation
The definition of seriously injured persons was altered in 1992 and 2015. A decrease has been observed in the number of persons killed or seriously injured despite an increase in the number of vehicles on the road and in traffic density. This decrease is due in particular to policy measures such as the reduction of permissible blood-alcohol content and technological progress.
International comparability
Data on people killed in road traffic accidents are based on the definition used by Eurostat.
Synthesis
Comments: Synthesis of the observed trends of the number of people killed (K) and the number of people seriously injured (SI) (due to a break in the time series, the calculations are based on data from 2015 onwards). The assessment of each variable is expressed by a value without dimension (-1 for a negative assessment, 0 for an unchanged assessment, +1 for a positive assessment). These values are then added up and the result sets the general trend of the indicator.
Tables
Methodology
The indicator shows the number of road traffic victims killed or seriously injured. Data come from the road traffic accidents statistics compiled by the Federal Road Office (FEDRO). Some of these statistics are also published by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Please note that some of the findings published in the FSO cause of death statistics may show some differences as the definitions used are not the same.
Definitions
Accidents (road traffic):
All accidents on public roads and places involving personal injury are recorded.
Accident casualties (road traffic):
Accident casualties comprises all persons who have been injured, seriously injured or killed in a road traffic accident. "Serious accident casualties" includes seriously injured and killed persons. "Seriously injured persons" refers to persons who show serious impairments that prevent them from engaging in normal activities at home for at least 24 hours (e.g. loss of consciousness or bone fracture [excluding finger fracture] or other impairment that requires a hospital stay of more than 1 day). "Persons killed" refers to persons who lost their lives at the scene of the accident or who died within 30 days of the collision as a result of an accident. The Road Accident Statistics show all persons who died as a result of a traffic accident in Switzerland, regardless of their place of residence (domestic principle).
Targets
Swiss target 3.6: By 2020 the number of deaths and seriously injured casualties on Swiss roads will decline.
International target 3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.
Contact
Federal Statistical Office Section Environment, Sustainable Development, TerritoryEspace de l'Europe 10
CH-2010 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
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