the actual figure should be number of vehicles owners * number of occupants, even more strictly speaking the "road users" - including the pedestrians. Also please account for time spent on road and actual distance travelled in your calculations somehow.Hitesh wrote:Virukpaksha,
that is highly misleading. What you should be looking at is the number of vehicles on the roads and the fatalities associated with it. Compared to USA's number of vehicles on the road, India is vastly lower on the list and yet tops on the list with the highest fatalities.
For example in USA, a single person owns multiple vehicles. So according to your calculation, you have increased your denominator by more than the population of the country. A person should be in multiple vehicles at the same time to make sense. in short - absurd. Or say India where the same car will carry 5 people instead of 1, the usual norm in other countries which decreases the denominator to absurd levels. The buses in India do carry people, even though all the people do not drive a vehicle. I cant think of a single argument to not counting these people under road users. I would say counting only the motor vehicles is one of the most misleading indicators.
If you can give that figure, yaa sure go ahead. If not, the population is a very very good approximation for comparision purposes.