Chinese road toll 104,372 in 2003

Road accidents in China left 104,372 people dead in 2003, a fall from the
previous year despite more vehicles being on the roads, official figures
showed.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/040116/2/nb91.html

 

Quick!! Send all the Australian politicians and do gooders over there!

How can we live with such a high road toll???

 

Greg said....

Gr> Quick!! Send all the Australian politicians and do gooders over there!
Gr>
Gr> How can we live with such a high road toll???

Dunno. But if you extrapolate our population out to match China's, our
national toll for 2002 would be around 70,000.

I'm basing this on China having 900 million people and Oz 20 million.
I'm not sure of exact figures.

 

China 1,286,975,468 (July 2003 est.)

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html#People

Australia

19,731,984 (July 2003 est.)

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/as.html#People

Boxer

(come on Smee whine that this is a political post)

 

But is this a linear extrapolation or exponential? Considering that this
is a two dimensional domain (the surface of the planet) then a power of
two extrapolation might be more logical.[1]

Cheers
Goaty
1. Ducks, hides ...

 

Duckskin leathers?

-----sharks

 

Is that the pronunciation of something?

 

A _real_ politician would have known that Australia passed the 20,000,000
milestone on December 4th 2003.

On 19 January 2004 at 12:56:28 (Canberra time), the resident population of
Australia is projected to be: 20,031,720.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

"sharkey" wrote

Shagreen.



Leather made from shark(ey) skin. Watch out.

Theo

 

Boxer said....

Bo> China 1,286,975,468 (July 2003 est.)

Bo> Australia

Bo> 19,731,984 (July 2003 est.)

Well, then my calcs were way off. If China's population is 65 times that
of Oz, then the 1,600 deaths on Oz roads in 2002 would extrapolate to
around 104,356 deaths. What was China's again???

 

Goaty said....

Go> But is this a linear extrapolation or exponential? Considering that this
Go> is a two dimensional domain (the surface of the planet) then a power of
Go> two extrapolation might be more logical.[1]

Dunno. I lost you after "But is this a".......

 

methinks the average chinese person doesn't spend quite as much time in
a car though...

Charlie

 

For the sake of a true comparison I used the same time period.

A true statistician would have known that!

Boxer

 

I'm really disappointed that my witty play on the Niw Zullund pronunciation
of 'dickscan' went uncommentedupon. So fukyiz.

 

If you'd thought to sign off as "Kiwihead" we might have tried ...

----sharkhead

 

Charlie said....

Ch> methinks the average chinese person doesn't spend quite as much time in
Ch> a car though...

The toll doesn't necessarily have to reflect car crashes. Our road toll
includes all road users, such as peds, cyclists, etc. Is China's method
of measuring the toll different?

 

I think they use an abacus.

 

Chinese New Year today.. so I guess the reset the counter to 0 and had a lower
road toll than Australia for a few minutes.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX