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Antibiotic consumption rate

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What you should know about this indicator

  • For Portugal: data are incomplete for antituberculosis medicines.
  • For Kuwait, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and United Kingdom: only consumption in the public sector reported and this is estimated to represent less than 90% of total antimicrobial usage.
  • For Austria, Germany and Iceland: only antimicrobial consumption in the community is reported.
  • For Bhutan, Burkina Faso and Sudan: for antibiotics, only antibiotics for systemic use (ATC code J01) are reported
  • For Bhutan, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Georgia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Switzerland, Tunisia, Tanzania and Palestine: for antibiotics, only antibiotics for systemic use (ATC code J01) and nitroimidazole derivatives (ATC code P01AB) are reported.
  • For Kenya: data is incomplete since it's not collected from all sources.
  • For Nepal: data is incomplete, not all antibiotics reported systematically.
Antibiotic consumption rate
Total of antibiotics and antituberculosis drugs used in a given year per 1,000 inhabitants per day.
Source
WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
November 12, 2024
Next expected update
November 2025
Date range
2016–2022
Unit
defined daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants per day

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Inappropriate use of antimicrobials in humans is a primary driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emergence and spread. In 2020, WHO launched GLASS antimicrobial use (GLASS AMU), previously called GLASS AMC, to monitor the quantity and types of antimicrobial s us ed at the national and global levels. WHO invites Countries, Areas, and Territories (CTAs) to enrol in GLASS AMU and commit to building or strengthening their national AMU surveillance system and, when ready, to reporting their national AMU data. Data calls are opened every year.

Retrieved on
November 12, 2024
Retrieved from
https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/glass-dashboard/_w_053a572c/#!/amu
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) 2024: Antimicrobial Use data contextual information and antimicrobial use estimates by ATC4 subgroup and AWaRe, 2016-2022. Geneva, World Health Organization; 2024.

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“Data Page: Antibiotic consumption rate”, part of the following publication: Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2016) - “Global Health”. Data adapted from WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS). Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-consumption-rate [online resource]
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WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. “Antibiotic consumption rate” [dataset]. WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS), “WHO GLASS” [original data]. Retrieved December 15, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-consumption-rate