Drug production value share of antibiotics Japan 2016, by category
The statistic illustrates the distribution of the drug production value of antibiotics in Japan in 2015, broken down by sub therapeutic category. In that year, antibiotics acting mainly on gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria made up the largest share of the total production value with nearly 63 percent. The production amount of antibiotics acting mainly on gram-positive bacteria and mycoplasma ranked second with approximately 18 percent.