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Traffic-Related Death Rate - All

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Number of automobile accident fatalities from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's vital statistics. In order to average the variation depending on year, the average numbers of automobile accident fatalities in each prefecture for the 10 year period from 1998 to 2007 have been compared.

During this 10 year period, an average of 11,200 people per year have died due to automobile accidents, and the number of automobile accident fatalities per 100 thousand population is 8.765.

The number of automobile accident fatalities per 100 thousand population is greatest Kagawa, with 16.302. This is 1.86 times the national average, and the deviation value, 74.7, is also high. The number of automobile accident fatalities per 100 thousand population in Kagawa is 1.2 times that of Saga, ranked second, indicating that number of automobile accident fatalities in Kagawa is incomparably high. Of the top 5 prefectures, 4 prefectures, Kagawa (1st), Kochi (3rd), Tokushima (4th) and Ehime (5th), are in Shikoku, and the high number of automobile accident fatalities in Shikoku stands out.

In view of the rates per 100 thousand population, the numbers of automobile accident fatalities in Aichi and Osaka, in which there is said to be reckless driving, are not that high and fall below the national average. This is believed to be due to the low rate of automobile usage in urban areas, and thus few fatalities from automobile accidents.

The correlative ranking shows that is is highly correlated (0.7 or more) with the number of Automobiles Registered, indicating that there are many automobile accident fatalities where there are many automobiles.

TRAFFIC-RELATED DEATH RATE - ALL

Source　MHLW Vital Statistics (2016)

Rank	Prefectures	Traffic-Related Death Rate - All		Standard Score
Rank	Prefectures	Amount	per 100000 Population	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Kagawa	81.3人	8.364	72.41
2	Iwate	98.0人	7.729	67.64
3	Ehime	104.0人	7.564	66.40
4	Tokushima	53.3人	7.107	62.98
5	Fukui	55.0人	7.033	62.42
6	Kochi	48.0人	6.657	59.60
7	Saga	55.0人	6.643	59.49
8	Toyama	70.3人	6.626	59.37
9	Mie	119.0人	6.582	59.04
10	Wakayama	62.7人	6.572	58.96
11	Ibaraki	187.3人	6.448	58.03
12	Tottori	36.0人	6.316	57.04
13	Kagoshima	102.7人	6.274	56.72
14	Okayama	117.7人	6.146	55.77
15	Tochigi	119.0人	6.053	55.06
16	Miyazaki	66.0人	6.022	54.83
17	Yamaguchi	82.7人	5.933	54.16
18	Ishikawa	67.7人	5.882	53.78
19	Niigata	133.0人	5.818	53.30
20	Aomori	74.7人	5.777	53.00
21	Fukushima	107.7人	5.665	52.16
22	Yamanashi	47.0人	5.663	52.14
23	Shimane	38.3人	5.551	51.30
24	Gifu	111.7人	5.524	51.10
25	Akita	55.7人	5.515	51.03
26	Oita	62.0人	5.345	49.75
27	Kumamoto	94.7人	5.338	49.70
28	Shiga	75.3人	5.329	49.63
29	Yamagata	59.0人	5.301	49.42
30	Nagano	104.0人	4.981	47.02
31	Hiroshima	141.3人	4.981	47.02
32	Shizuoka	181.0人	4.908	46.47
33	Nagasaki	65.0人	4.755	45.32
34	Gunma	91.3人	4.642	44.47
35	Hokkaido	227.3人	4.247	41.51
36	Fukuoka	216.7人	4.246	41.50
37	Nara	57.3人	4.226	41.35
38	Hyogo	232.3人	4.208	41.22
39	Chiba	256.7人	4.116	40.53
40	Miyagi	93.7人	4.022	39.82
41	Aichi	299.0人	3.983	39.53
42	Kyoto	97.3人	3.735	37.67
43	Okinawa	52.7人	3.662	37.12
44	Saitama	251.3人	3.448	35.51
45	Osaka	285.7人	3.235	33.91
46	Kanagawa	250.0人	2.734	30.15
47	Tokyo	255.0人	1.872	23.68
	Japan	5,547.0人	4.370