Antimicrobial drugs for livestock by drug class sales share U.S. 2022

This statistic depicts the sales share of antimicrobial drugs for livestock usage in the United States in 2022, by drug type. In that year, lincosamides amounted to around two percent of the grand total of domestic sales.

Distribution of antimicrobial drugs sales for use in livestock by drug class in the United States in 2022

Characteristic	Percentage of sales
Aminoglycosides	3%
Amphenicols	1%
Cephalosporins	0%
Fluoroquinolones	0%
Ionophores	37%
Lincosamides	2%
Macrolides	5%
Penicillins	6%
Pleuromutilins	2%
Sulfonamides	3%
Tetracyclines	36%
Not independently reported (NIR)	5%
Export**	0%

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Release date

December 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Includes antimicrobial drug applications which are approved and labeled for use in both food-producing animals (e.g., cattle and swine) and nonfood-producing animals (e.g., dogs and cats).
Percentage points exceeding 100 percent are probably due to rounding.
* Only includes exports of FDA-approved, US-labeled antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals.

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