road traffic injuries in Iraq ( 2006 - 2020) related to target 3.6 of the SDGs

What is it about?

The target 3.6 of The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) asserted the halving of the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2030.During the first Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020), the Iraqi government couldn’t achieve this international commitment and fatalities and injuries witnessed ascending trends. The present work is a retrospective study aims to provide a descriptive analysis of the available data concerning road traffic injuries in Iraq during the period 2006 to 2020. The analysis will be directed on the light of the target 3.6 of the SDGs to investigate the rates of the fatalities and injuries as these rates are the indicators adopted by the United Nations to measure the progress towards achieving the SDGs.

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Photo by Stephen Tafra on Unsplash

Photo by Stephen Tafra on Unsplash

Why is it important?

The results showed that the reduction in fatalities in 2019 was only 2.5 % compared to 2011 and so there is an urgent need to reduce the present growth rate of fatalities, otherwise the fatalities will reach 3698 in 2030 instead of 2152 that reported in 2020. The statistical analysis showed no significant correlation between motorization rate and each of crashes, mortalities and injuries. The higher the ratio of collision crash type the lower expected total number of fatalities as the collision resulted in the lowest fatalities per one crash.

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