Improving Road Safety

in the OIC Member States

matter, health related factors in general), namely the GINI coefficient, which is defined (United

Nations Development Programme, 2015) as:

“Measure of the deviation of the distribution of income among individuals or households within a

country from a perfectly equal distribution. A value of 0 represents absolute equality, a value of

100 absolute inequality”.

The GINI coefficient is used to measure inequality in income distributions. In countries with high

GINI values the majority of the income is earned by a small proportion of the populationwhereas

in countries with low GINI indices the income earned is distributed more evenly across the

entire population.

6.3.2

Mortality rates by income levels, population and vehicle ownership in OIC member

countries

Assuming that the regression line fro

m Figure 11

represents a meaningful average relationship

between mortality and income levels (pcGNI),

Figure 12

shows the distribution of the data of

the OIC member countries around this average. In order to provide insight into population size

and vehicle ownership, the data points in the graph are represented by circles, the area of which

describes the size of population of each country and the colour shade the level of vehicle

ownership (darker representing higher ownership). It should be noted that vehicle ownership

is also based on WHO data and these include motorised two-wheelers.

Figure 12: Mortality versus pcGNI for OIC member countries

Source: WHO, 2015

Note: The line represents an unweighted best fit of a power function to the data as shown in Figure 5.1. To make

the results easier to observe, the horizontal axis is represented on a logarithmic scale.

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AFG

ALB

ARE

AZE

BEN

BFA

BGD

BHR

CIV

CMR

DJI

DZA

EGY

GAB

GIN

GMB

GNB

GUY

IDN

IRN

IRQ

JOR

KAZ

KGZ

KWT

LBN

LBY

MAR

MDV

MLI

MOZ

MYS

NER

NGA

OMN

PAK

QAT

SDN

SEN

SLE

SUR

TCD

TGO

TJK

TKM

TUN

TUR

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UZB

YEM

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mortality [road deaths per million]

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