Antibiotics Shortage

Shortages of medications in general and antibiotics were steadily increasing in frequency until the pandemic hit. We perform an in-depth data analysis of the global antibiotic production system and trade network to derive indicators for how vulnerable the antibiotics supply in more than 100 countries is with respect to production disruptions in any of the other countries.

We visualize these trade risk indicators on a map to show the importance of countries in global supply network. It allows the exploration for specific categories of antibiotics and years. We also provide a visual profile for each country to show the dependence ranking, imports and exports.