Dataset
Antibiotic consumption rate
owid.antibiotic-consumption-rate
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About
Total defined daily doses of antibiotics and antituberculosis drugs used in a given year per 1,000 inhabitants per day.
Cite as: WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. “Defined daily doses of antibiotics and antituberculosis drugs used per 1,000 inhabitants per day” [dataset]. WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS), “WHO GLASS – Global Antimicrobial Use data” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2016–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-06-30
- Units
- defined daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants per day
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-consumption-rate
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| did_antibacterials_and_antituberculosis | number | Defined daily doses of antibiotics and antituberculosis drugs used per 1,000 inhabitants per day (defined daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants per day) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |