Skip to main content

Table 3 Antibiotic use in the various regions of the world expressed as a proportion of records

From: Antibiotic use on crops in low and middle-income countries based on recommendations made by agricultural advisors

WHO global region

Number of countries recommending antibiotics

Proportion of Plantwise countries of the region recommending antibiotics

Numbers of records containing antibiotic recommendations

Total number of records from countries known to recommend antibiotics

Proportion of recommendations containing an antibiotic

South East Asia

5

83%

1046

42,859

2.44%

Western Pacific

2

100%

301

15,704

1.92%

America

3

33%

260

16,102

1.62%

Eastern Mediterranean

1

50%

52

177,317

0.03%

Total

11

 

1659

251,982

 
  1. Total number of records from countries known to recommend antibiotics is 251,982; proportion of these records containing an antibiotic 0.66%
  2. Total number of records in the whole data set is 436,674; proportion of records containing an antibiotic 0.38%
  3. The total number of records from countries known to be recommending antibiotics grouped by region and the percentage of those records containing an antibiotic. The number of antibiotic-containing records expressed as a percentage of the whole data set and from countries known to be recommending antibiotics is also given
Back to article page

CABI Agriculture and Bioscience

ISSN: 2662-4044