> in 2013, China consumed nearly half the world’s antibiotics — 162,000 tonnes, 52% of which was administered to animals1. Such widespread use of antibiotics is a cause for concern.
It is indeed. Curious what the US usage/percentage is.
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According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 80% of antibiotics in the US are used in animals.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1311479
But that's less total antibiotics, which totals only around 18,000 tonnes. (Assuming that the data are comparable, which I wouldn't guarantee.)