Table 2.
Impact of 2019 changes in DDDs on estimates of total antibiotic consumption and ranking of countries.
| 2016 DDD values | 2019 DDD values | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank∗ | DID# | Rank∗ | DID# | % decrease | Change in rank | |
| Turkey | 1 | 41.5 | 1 | 35.5 | 14.5 | – |
| Serbia | 2 | 36.5 | 2 | 31.0 | 15.1 | – |
| Montenegro | 3 | 33.9 | 3 | 29.0 | 14.4 | – |
| Tajikistan | 4 | 25.7 | 5 | 21.6 | 16.0 | -1 |
| Georgia | 5 | 25.5 | 4 | 24.2 | 5.1 | +1 |
| Kosovo§ | 6 | 23.1 | 6 | 20.0 | 13.6 | – |
| Kyrgyzstan | 7 | 20.5 | 8 | 16.7 | 18.4 | -1 |
| Belarus | 8 | 19.0 | 9 | 17.0 | 10.3 | -1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9 | 19.0 | 11 | 16.2 | 14.7 | -2 |
| Kazakhstan | 10 | 18.2 | 7 | 17.4 | 4.3 | +3 |
| Albania | 11 | 18.2 | 10 | 16.3 | 10.5 | +1 |
| Russian federation | 12 | 15.5 | 12 | 14.1 | 9.2 | |
| Republic of Moldova | 13 | 13.8 | 13 | 12.9 | 7.0 | – |
| Armenia | 14 | 10.7 | 14 | 9.4 | 12.5 | – |
| Uzbekistan | 15 | 10.5 | 15 | 8.6 | 18.4 | – |
| Azerbaijan | 16 | 8.0 | 16 | 7.3 | 7.9 | – |
| Mean | 21.0 | 18.4 | ||||
| Median | 19.0 | 16.5 | ||||
| Range | 8.0–41.5 | 7.3–35.5 | ||||
∗highest to lowest; #DID DDD/1000 inhabitants per day; §in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).