EU road deaths 19,350 in 2025, down 3% year-on-year

The European Commission published final 2025 road safety statistics: 19,350 road traffic deaths in the EU, down 3% from 2024 and down 15% from 2019, equivalent to 580 fewer deaths than 2024 and 3,400 fewer than 2019. The data also show that only five countries—Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Poland and Romania—are on track to meet the goal of halving road deaths by 2030; Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia had the highest death rates per million inhabitants, at 71, 68 and 65 respectively. Subsequent reporting added that Sweden (19 per million inhabitants) and Denmark (24 per million inhabitants) have the safest roads; provisional data for the first half of 2026 show that more countries reported a decline of over 5% in deaths than reported an increase.