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Road Safety Crisis: Dominican Republic

What would cut road deaths fastest — engineering, enforcement, post-crash care and data — and how to finance it

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15 OCT 202614 MINCLOSED

Overview — the deadliest roads in the hemisphere, and a window that just opened

For most of the past fifteen years the Dominican Republic has sat at or near the top of global road-death rankings. The WHO-modelled estimate carried by the World Bank put the country at 64.6 road deaths per 100,000 people in 2019 — roughly four times the Latin America & Caribbean average — and the World Bank's own infrastructure assessment cites 35 per 100,000 , still more than double the regional norm. National registries counted 2,707–3,124 deaths a year between 2020 and 2024 . For a nation of 11.5 million people with a $11,059 GDP per capita and a tourism-led growth model, this is…

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