Denmark vs Lithuania: Antibiotic usage by surveillance category

Denmark
13.38 defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day
in 2023
Lithuania
12.67 defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day
in 2023
Denmark rank
20th
Lithuania rank
23rd

Antibiotic usage by surveillance category over time

  • Denmark
  • Lithuania
051015201620192023

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 13.38 defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day against 12.67 defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day in Lithuania, a difference of 0.7142 defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day.

That makes Denmark's figure about 1.1 times Lithuania's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 8 shared years of data; in 2016 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 20th and Lithuania ranks 23rd of 46 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Antibiotic usage by surveillance category
Unit
defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day
Source
WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
46 places, 344 data points, 2016–2023
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Total defined daily doses of AWaRe category: Access used per 1000 inhabitants per day. Access antibiotics have activity against a wide range of common pathogens and show lower resistance potential than antibiotics in the other groups.