Methodology

Goal: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Target: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.

Indicator: Death rate due to road traffic injuries.

Concepts or definitions: Death rate due to road traffic injuries as defined as the number of road traffic fatal injury deaths per 100,000 population.

Formula: The death rate due to road traffic injuries is calculated using the number of road traffic fatal injury deaths divided by the total population, by 100,000.

Measure Unit: Rate

Reach: National

Initial period of historical sequence: 2016

Last period of historical sequence: 2017

Institution: Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

Contact: Ana Jara Castro, Statistical Projects Manager

Source: Death Records 2016-2017. Puerto Rico Vital Statistic Record Office, Health Department. Table: PEPAGESEX-Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Selected Age Groups by Sex for the United States, States, Counties, and Puerto Rico Commonwealth and Municipios: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2018. 2018 Population Estimates. United States Census Bureau.

References: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/