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Quite low considering India has 22% of world's population.

The article says India has 1% of cars globally, but otherwise doesn’t list any other stats for context. Miles driven would be nice to know, but total population isn’t helpful since a country can be very populous but have very few cars and that would skew things

You'd also have to account for scooters and such.

>> The article says India has 1% of cars globally

I find them referencing the number of cars as very suspect. I know from other studies that the majority of road deaths in India involve passenger busses. There are far more people travelling by bus than private car. And when a bus crashes it is a much larger incident. After the busses are all the two-wheeled vehicle crashes. So them talking about car statistics, which are a minority on most Indian roads, seems out of place.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-roads-share-bl...

It’s a good point, but it’s people that die, not cars. Pedestrians, scooter drivers and bus passengers are going to make up a portion of the deaths too.

The USA has 20x more motor vehicles per capita than India [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...

Well, the US is also an outlier in its own right.

17.7%* https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pop+india+%2F+world+po...

but still...

Distance driven is probably the broadest metric one can use to compare here.

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