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These resource constraints lead to discrepancies in outcomes, with higher case-fatality rates for similar injuries in LMICs compared with high-income countries. Over one million trauma deaths could be averted each year if case-fatality rates in LMICs could be brought down to high-income country levels. There have been many local examples of affordable and sustainable improvements in trauma care and trauma outcomes in LMICs. The WHO and professional societies have worked to make more sustained progress globally. These efforts have resulted in moderate improvements in the availability of resources for trauma care, as assessed by consensus panels over the past 20 years. During this time, mortality for trauma has declined by 24% in the richer half of the world (high-income and upper middle-income countries) and by 15% in the poorer half (low-income and lower middle-income countries). 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