{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "id": "automobile-world",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-16",
  "roadmap_items": [
    "3.2.13",
    "3.2.15",
    "4.2.70"
  ],
  "indicator_type": "modelled annual rates plus periodic official statistics",
  "global_vehicle_production": {
    "period": 2025,
    "vehicles": 96400000,
    "average_per_day": 263934.24,
    "average_per_second": 3.054794,
    "source": "https://oica.net/auto-industry-growth-shifted-east-in-2025-amid-global-repositioning/"
  },
  "electric_cars": {
    "period": 2025,
    "sales_lower_bound": 20000000,
    "share_of_global_car_sales_percent": 25,
    "source": "https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/trends-in-electric-cars"
  },
  "road_traffic_deaths": {
    "data_period": 2021,
    "report_year": 2023,
    "annual_estimate": 1190000,
    "average_per_day": 3258.11,
    "source": "https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of-health/safety-and-mobility/global-status-report-on-road-safety-2023"
  },
  "eu_end_of_life_vehicles": {
    "period": 2023,
    "vehicles": 4300000,
    "total_weight_tonnes": 5000000,
    "reuse_and_recycling_percent": 88.3,
    "reuse_and_recovery_percent": 93.7,
    "coverage": "European Union only",
    "source": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/SEPDF/cache/24943.pdf"
  },
  "caveat": "Moving values distribute published annual totals evenly across time. Production, road deaths and EU end-of-life vehicles differ in geography, period and definition and must not be combined as one balance."
}