India roughly accounts for 15% of road traffic deaths worldwide, although it has just 1% of the world's motor vehicles. In 2011, the country witnessed 440,123 accidents that left 136,834 people dead, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. In the decade up to 2011, the number of deaths on the road jumped by 44.2 per cent.

A rough calculation of the data in the World Health Organisation's global status report on road safety 2013, on the number of registered vehicles and the number of estimated road traffic fatalities around the world, indicates that in India, there is an average of one death for every 840 vehicles. Meanwhile, China has one death for 2,942 vehicles, while the US has one death for every 7,847 vehicles.

What's more, the majority of road fatalities in India (65%) occur on state and national highways and 78% of all road fatalities are attributed to human errors, such as speeding, inattention, drunken driving and prediction errors.

But if you take Death per thousands, you can see India is at parity with the world. Ref: http://qz.com/216766/despite-what-you-may-think-indias-hardl...