The purpose of this publication is to examine trends in the
numbers of transport accident deaths in Australia in the 1980s and
1990s in the light of the most recent comparable data from most
other countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). Overall, the data indicate that
in the period from 1980 to 1999 Australias transport safety
improvement compared favourably with that of other OECD countries
and performance reached OECD median levels in the 1990s.
Data for this publication have been obtained from the World
Health Organisations Mortality Database but responsibility for the
analyses presented here rests solely with the ATSB.
The OECD was formed in 1961 to promote economic cooperation and
development among its members. Current member states are Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South
Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the
UK and the USA.