
Number of deaths due to road accidents India 2020, by traffic control type
In 2020, the road accident deaths caused in uncontrolled traffic was the highest, amounting to around 23 thousand. Each year, about three to five percent of the GDP of the country was invested in road accidents. About 70 percent of accidents involved young Indians. The country has about one percent of the global vehicle population but it accounted for six percent of the world's road traffic accidents.