Table 1:

Motor vehicle deaths and death rates. Sources: US Bureau of Census, The Statistical History of the United States, Introduction by Ben J. Wattenberg (New York: Basic Books, 1976), Series Q 208–209, p. 719; US Bureau of Census, Table 1103, http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.pdf.

(a) USA 1913–1970
Year	Number	Rate per 100 000 pop. (age-adjusted, base 1940)
Average of 1913–17	6 700	7.0
Average of 1918–22	12 500	12.3
Average of 1923–7	30 900	26.4
Average of 1928–2	21 700	19.6
Average of 1933–7	36 313	29.3
1943	23 823	17.7
1944	24 282	18.3
1946	33 411	24.0
1949	31 701	21.5
1950	34 763	23.3
1952	37 794	25.0
1955	38 426	24.6
1960	38 137	22.4
1965	49 163	26.5
1970	54 633	25.3
(b) USA 1990–2009
Year	Number	Rate per 100 000 pop.
1990	44 600	17.9
1995	41 800	15.9
2000	41 900	14.9
2005	43 500	14.7
2009	22 800	11.0