Cost of fatalities and serious injuries reach alarming levels in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova

The Eastern Partnership Road Safety Observatory (EaP RSO), a joint initiative of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, has shared on Facebook new data on the hidden price of road crashes in some of the Eastern Partner countries.

According to the EaP RSO, the cost of fatalities and serious injuries reached alarming levels in three EaP countries in 2023:

• Moldova – $545 million (fatalities: $95 million, serious injuries: $450 million)
• Armenia – $1.03 billion (fatalities: $216 million, serious injuries: $810 million)
• Georgia – $1.21 billion (fatalities: $254 million, serious injuries: $953 million)

“Road crashes don’t just claim lives – they also cause billions in economic losses every year,” says a Facebook post by EaP RSO. “Most of these costs come from serious injuries, which can change lives forever. Beyond the numbers are families, communities, and national economies deeply affected.”

The initiative calls for investing in road safety to save lives and reduce the financial burden.

The Eastern Partnership Road Safety Observatory is a joint initiative of the five Eastern Partnership countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine – with the common goal of reducing road casualties by 50% by 2030. The initiative houses country-level data and acts as a catalyst to strengthen national road safety data collection, management and analysis. The initiative is funded by the EU, as part of the global network of regional Road Safety Observatories supported by the World Bank.