Table 2.
Ranking of consumption of tetracyclines (ATC J01A) in the community, expressed in DDDs or packages per 1000 inhabitants per day, 20 EU/EEA countries in 2017
| Country | Greece | Ireland | Iceland | Latvia | Bulgaria | Finland | Czechia | Lithuania | France | Belgium | Estonia | Sweden | Slovakia | Croatia | Spain | Italy | Portugal | Denmark | Austria | Slovenia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ranking for packages per 1000 inhabitants per day |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
|
Ranking for DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day |
5 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 18 | 20 |
|
Number of DDD per package |
7.9 | 10.7 | 20.7 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 19.3 | 12.8 | 10.2 | 22.6 | 14.9 | 10.1 | 23.5 | 20.8 | 12.6 | 23.6 | 8.8 | 15.6 | 27.5 | 15.3 | 11.8 |
For Czechia, 2015 data are used. For Slovakia, 2016 data are used. For Cyprus and Romania, total care data, i.e. community and hospital sector combined, are used.