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Antibiotic prescription rate among children in Italy 2019, by age group
This statistic depicts the prescription rate of antibiotics among children in Italy in 2019, broken down by age. According to data, the rate of antibiotic prescription was particularly high among children between two and three years of age: 57 percent were prescribed antibiotic drugs during that year. By contrast, the prescription rate among adolescents aged between 12 and 17 was significantly lower, at 28 percent.