Visualizing the Rise of Bacteria's Resistance to Antibiotics 💊

What We're Showing

The resistance rates of key antibiotics from 2001 to 2020 using the latest available data. Figured are from the Center for Global Development.

Key Takeaways

• Primarily due to misuse and overuse of antibiotics, rates of resistance have nearly tripled from about 16% in 2001 to 44% in 2020.
• In other words, nearly half of infections are not responsive to the antibiotics typically used to treat them.
• The majority of experts believe that some of the key antibiotics will very likely be lost to resistance within the next 15 years, meaning new drugs are desperately needed.