TABLE 11 Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (rho) for antimicrobial consumption in humans and in food‐producing animals for the groups selected for analysis and overall, 28 EU/EEA countries ^a for which complete data were available for humans and food‐producing animals, 2021.

Antimicrobial groups b	Correlation coefficient (p‐value)
Third‐ and fourth‐generation cephalosporins	0.34 (0.08)
Fluoroquinolones and other quinolones	0.74 (< 0.001)
Polymyxins	0.49 (0.008)
Aminopenicillins	0.53 (0.004)
Macrolides	0.51 (0.006)
Tetracyclines	−0.31 (0.11)
Total consumption	0.36 (0.06)

^a AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI and SK.

^b For antimicrobial groups included (ATC and ATCvet codes), please refer to Section 3.2.