世界银行-通过更好的道路安全解锁经济增长（英）

Acknowledgments: This note is one of a series of analytic and advisory outputs of the Brazil Mobility and Logistics for Sustainability and Resilience project (P179908) conducted under the guidance of Bianca Bianchi Alves (Practice Manager, Transport, Latin America and the Caribbean), and Luis Alberto Andres (Program Leader, Infrastructure, Brazil). The team thanks colleagues Alina Burlacu (Senior Transport Specialist), Courtney Price Ivins (Senior Health Specialist), Dipan Bose (Senior Transport Specialist), Wim Wijnen (Consultant), and Mohammad Khalaf (Consultant, George Washington University) for their constructive peer review. Funding for this study was provided by the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) and UK Aid under the direction of Said Dahdah (Program Manager, GRSF). Icon Credit: Pedestrian Crossing with Cars by Tiana Sultana via Vecteezy. https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/58110391-pedestrian-crossing-with-cars-traffic-safety UNLOCKING ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH BETTER ROAD SAFETY BRAZIL TRANSPORT SECTOR NOTE June 2025 While road traffic fatalities and injuries impose large economic and social costs on both individuals and countries, policy makers are too often unaware of the full extent of these costs as they make decisions regarding investments in infrastructure, health care, and law enforcement. In Brazil, road traffic crashes represent a burden of about US$61 billion every year, equivalent to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product—and twice as much as the average infrastructure investment in the country. Improving road safety could unlock significant long-term growth for Brazil. Key steps forward are to: (1) prioritize road safety as a political commitment, (2) align road design standards with international best practices, (3) set road transport policies grounded in data-driven analysis, and (4) manage risk exposure through a safer modal split. Carlos Bellas Lamas, Gabriel Pereira Caldeira, Marta Rodrigues Obelheiro, and Jorge Tiago Bastos Public Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure Authorized1 CONTEXT Every day, people lose their lives in road traffic crashes, or suffer injury, with ripple effects across families and communities.1 In 2021, road crashes resulted in an estimated 1.19 million deaths worldwide.2 Crash-related injuries and deaths impose hefty economic and social costs that take up a large portion of public health system resources. The burden is particularly evident in low- and middle-income countries.3 A 2017 World Bank study estimates that halving the number of road traffic deaths and injuries in these countries can spur the long-term growth of national income, and specifically a 7–22 percent rise in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita over 24 years.4 Brazil ranks fifth in the world in terms of the annual number of road fatalities. In 2022, more than 33,000 people lo