Eurostat
Annual number of persons killed in road accidents, by reporting country, for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidates and the EU aggregate. Eurostat dataset tran_sf_roadus ('Persons killed in road accidents by age, sex and category of persons involved'), filtered to freq=A, sex=T ('Total'), age=TOTAL ('Total'), unit=NR ('Number') and pers_cat=TOTAL ('Total' category of persons involved), from the CARE database (Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe, managed by DG MOVE). Each row is one (year, country): persons killed outright or dying within 30 days of the accident, all road users and all ages. Method: Eurostat compiles CARE microdata transmitted by the member states under Council Decision 93/704/EC; national datasets are integrated in their original structure with transformation rules for compatibility; non-EU/EFTA/candidate countries (notably the UK) are dropped by the connector's commercial-use geo rule. Units: number of persons killed. Caveats: injury definitions are not harmonised, so only fatalities are published; the 2020 dip reflects COVID-19 mobility restrictions, not a permanent change; EU27_2020 is included as published; recent years are provisional and revised. Coverage: ~34 geographic units after the geo rule, 1999 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat publishes the series each spring. Sample use: filter country_code='SWE' and 'ROU' to compare the EU's lowest and highest fatality counts over time.
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