Wikipedia has a list of countries by traffic-related death rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate http://en.wikipedi

Wikipedia has a list of countries by traffic-related death rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re... Road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km (factors out the distance driven): USA is 7.6; Sweden is 3.7. I'm in the UK, we're 2.6. Road fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year (a decent measure of "how likely I am to know someone who has died on the road"): USA is 11.6; Sweden is 3; UK is 2.7.