Men dominate road deaths: 2024–2025 global stats report
Why men account for most road deaths worldwide in 2024–2025
Men dominate road deaths: 2024–2025 global stats report
Fresh stats from the UK, EU, US, Australia and Ireland show men make up about three quarters of road deaths. Explore the 2024–2025 data and what it signals.
2025-09-02T08:41:42+03:00
2025-09-02T08:41:42+03:00
2025-09-02T08:41:42+03:00
According to the latest release from the UK Department for Transport, in 2024 men accounted for 76% of road deaths in the country, while 61% of all casualties were male.European Commission figures tell a similar story across the EU in 2024: roughly three quarters of people killed on the roads were men (EU road safety statistics).Australia, looking at the 12 months to mid‑2025, shows much the same split: about three times as many men as women died, according to the federal National Road Safety Data Hub (Data Hub dashboard).In Ireland in 2024, the balance also skewed male—about three quarters of fatalities that year. In the United States, 72.5% of those who died were men: 29,584 men versus 11,229 women.Taken together, these figures highlight a persistent gender imbalance in road deaths that cuts across regions and driving cultures, and the pattern is hard to ignore.
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Why men account for most road deaths worldwide in 2024–2025
Fresh stats from the UK, EU, US, Australia and Ireland show men make up about three quarters of road deaths. Explore the 2024–2025 data and what it signals.
Michael Powers, Editor
According to the latest release from the UK Department for Transport, in 2024 men accounted for 76% of road deaths in the country, while 61% of all casualties were male.
European Commission figures tell a similar story across the EU in 2024: roughly three quarters of people killed on the roads were men (EU road safety statistics).
Australia, looking at the 12 months to mid‑2025, shows much the same split: about three times as many men as women died, according to the federal National Road Safety Data Hub (Data Hub dashboard).
In Ireland in 2024, the balance also skewed male—about three quarters of fatalities that year. In the United States, 72.5% of those who died were men: 29,584 men versus 11,229 women.
Taken together, these figures highlight a persistent gender imbalance in road deaths that cuts across regions and driving cultures, and the pattern is hard to ignore.
