← on nowLGR-063 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many people die from drug-resistant infections each year?
humans · Homo sapiens
died from drug-resistant infections
1.3 million
a year
0.040
a second
3,477
a day
the share from farm antibiotics
?
no ledger. most of the world’s antibiotics go to animals. no one has measured what comes back.
method Murray et al. 2022 (GRAM): deaths directly attributable to bacterial AMR, 2019.
- 1.27 million deaths a year directly attributable to resistance. the farm share is unquantified, not zero.source: Murray et al. 2022; Van Boeckel et al. 2019
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how this number is built
- method
- Murray et al. 2022 (GRAM): deaths directly attributable to bacterial AMR, 2019.
- range
- 0.9–1.7 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- the farm-antibiotic share is unquantified, and the site shows a dash rather than a number.
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- dispute
- dispute LGR-063 · corrections are credited
- data
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