Higher importance shows that global supply is more susceptible to disruptions from the considered country.
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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.
About Antibiotic Categories
For each year from 2010 to 2021 we extract all imports and exports reported in the UN Comtrade database in goods belonging to an Harmonized System (HS) shipping codes. HS is a standardized numerical method of classifying traded products, and we use 4 digits(HS-4) and 6 digits(HS-6). HS-6 includes two following digits to further specify categories, but there are a couple of countries do not follow the HS-6 level.