Road deaths in NSW have ­increased by more than 30 per cent in the last year – the worst result in the nation – with the country’s peak motoring body calling on the federal government to do more to stop the soaring number of deaths.

New analysis by the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) shows that NSW’s road toll climbed by 33.3 per cent, with 364 deaths in the year to March 31.

The new figure is a sharp jump from the 273 deaths recorded in NSW in the previous 12 months.

Nationally, the road death toll grew by 8.2 per cent – with 1286 deaths in the last year, after 1188 the year before.

AAA managing director Michael Bradley said the federal government – which last year ripped $3.5bn out of key infrastructure projects including road upgrades across NSW – had to share more data on accidents leading to road deaths.

The AAA said that extra data – describing an area’s road quality, causes of crashes, and the effectiveness of respective law enforcement regimes – could be used to better dictate how roads funding is spent, in a bid to cut down on deaths.

The AAA called on the Albanese government to honour a pre-election pledge from now-Infrastructure Minister Catherine King to “extract better quality road data from the states and territories in return for funding of road projects”.

“The continued rise in Australia’s road toll can’t be ignored any longer,” Mr Bradley said.

Ms King said the federal government was working with state and territories to provide “enhanced data sharing to increase access to vital data” to drive the death toll down.

While promising there’d be “more to say in the budget context” next month, she said the federal government had also increased “black spot” funding from $110m to $150m a year.