• Coelacanth
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    20 hours ago

    As far as I know Finland has the world’s strictest driving licence, so I’m actually surprised to see it posting worse statistics than Sweden here.

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      19 hours ago

      Sweden went insane with road security in the nineties (nollvisionen?) so maybe that’s why.

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      16 hours ago

      Sweden is as expected. 200-something fatalities for 10 million people. Norway stands out😃

      It got me thinking about definitions, though. For Sweden every death during transportation is counted (including busses, heavy trucks and single accidents with a bike), while the definition my 2 minute googling found for Canada said deaths resulting from accidents involving automobiles.

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        15 hours ago

        The stats are normalised for per 1 million inhabitants are they not?

        But your second point is definitely very good. I imagine getting consistent fully comparable numbers from all the various countries isn’t easy.