Dataset
Antibiotic use in livestock per kilogram of meat product
owid.antibiotic-use-livestock-per-kg
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About
Antimicrobial use is measured in milligrams per kilogram of meat product. Since not all countries report on their antimicrobial use, the estimates presented are adjusted to account for gaps in data coverage.
Cite as: World Organisation for Animal Health (2022) – processed by Our World in Data. “Antimicrobial quantities adjusted for animal biomass (adjusted for reporting coverage)” [dataset]. World Organisation for Animal Health, “ANIMUSE” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2014–2021
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2024-10-23
- Units
- milligrams per kilogram
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-livestock-per-kg
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 | |
| mg_per_kg_adjusted | number | Antimicrobial quantities adjusted for animal biomass (adjusted for reporting coverage) (milligrams per kilogram) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
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| entity | |
| year |