Table 2.
Top ten active countries in publishing documents on antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals (2000–2019)
| Rank | Country | Frequency | % N = 2852 |
Number of publications/ GDP (nominal) per capita (10−3)a |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 576 | 20.2 | 10.9 |
| 2 | China | 375 | 13.1 | 46.2 |
| 3 | Canada | 189 | 6.6 | 4.5 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 155 | 5.4 | 4.8 |
| 5 | Spain | 123 | 4.3 | 5.2 |
| 6 | Japan | 109 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| 7 | Germany | 110 | 3.9 | 2.9 |
| 8 | Brazil | 119 | 4.2 | 15.4 |
| 9 | South Korea | 108 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| 10 | India | 103 | 3.6 | 54.0 |
aNumber of publications/GDP (nominal) per capita for a particular country was calculated by dividing the number of publications by the GDP (nominal) per capita for that country. Data on GDP (nominal) per capita was obtained from the World Bank data