Fatality rates can be calculated in different ways.
But even in long-established FTSE 100 groups, executives have struggled to tackle fatality rates.
The study was based on highway fatality rates throughout most of the country.
According to the Equine Injury Database, equine fatality rates have dropped since 2009, but not enough.
While fatality rates in the United States continued to fall over roughly the same period, as technology and design radically improved, the country has slipped to ninth from first among nations ranked by fatality rates adjusted for miles traveled.
Roads with the highest accident and fatality rates include Route 1 & 9, Route 17 and Route 46.
At Del Mar and Saratoga this year, fatality rates were 2.42 and 1.81 per 1,000 starts respectively.
Homicide rates in Latin America are higher than fatality rates in some of the world's worst war zones.
He pointed out that the traffic-rich states of the Northeast have consistently lower fatality rates than in the West.
Over the past half-century, fatality rates in automobile accidents have been halved and then halved again.
In the case of bird flu, fatality rates are in the 63 percent ballpark — far above Category 5 levels.
