Countries that Had Cities With the Steepest Decline in Traffic Congestion Also Had the Strictest Government Imposed COVID-19 Measures

With a mean score of 71.34 for the year 2020, Argentina had the highest stringency index score among the countries analyzed.

-Oxford's stringency index is a composite measure based on nine response indicators including school closures, workplace closures, and travel bans, rescaled to a value from 0 to 100 (100 = strictest)
-This map only shows countries for whose cities traffic data was analyzed. Other countries are shown in gray.
Source: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Get the data