Attachm <br />Pedestrian safety: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners <br />Attach <br />Figure 1.3 shows data from selected countries on the distribution of road traffic <br />deaths by road user category, and highlights the variation between countries. <br />Pedestrians are disproportionately represented in road traffic fatalities in Bangladesh, <br />El Salvador, Ghana and the Republic of Korea, while they form a smaller proportion <br />in the Netherlands, Thailand and the United States, for example. Although Table i.z <br />shows that the proportion of pedestrians killed is lowest in South-East Asia, <br />Bangladesh - a country in this region - has a substantially higher share of pedestrian <br />fatalities indicating intra-regional differences. <br />With the exception of the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Pacific Regions, <br />pedestrians tend to account for a much greater proportion of road traffic injury <br />deaths in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries (see <br />Table i.1). City-level studies further confirm that pedestrians form a high proportion <br />of those killed in road traffic crashes in countries. For example, in India, pedestrians <br />comprise 78% of people killed in road traffic crashes in Mumbai, and 53% in Delhi <br />but only 10% at country level (20). While official statistics suggest that pedestrians <br />account for around 2.9% in Mexico, other studies have placed this as high as 48% (21). <br />The wide variation in pedestrian deaths between and within countries underscores <br />the need for a comprehensive analysis of existing road traffic injury data at country, <br />city and institutional (e.g. hospital) level to generate an accurate picture of the <br />magnitude of pedestrian fatalities and injuries in the local setting (see Module 3). <br />Road users killed by different modes of transport as a proportion of <br />national road traffic deaths, 2010 <br />Bangladesh <br />Brazil <br />China <br />El Salvador <br />France M <br />Ghana <br />India <br />Mexico <br />Morocco <br />Netherlands <br />Republic of Korea <br />Singapore <br />Thailand <br />United Arab Emirates <br />United Kingdom <br />United States <br />0% <br />i <br />1 <br />90% 100% <br />M Pedestrians .`mod Cyclists Motorized 2-3 wheelers Motorized 4-wheelers E Other <br />Source: 19 <br />11 <br />EC <br />B <br />156 <br />10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% <br />