Signal Unchecked AMR could cost 100 trillion dollars by 2050

Summary

The report expects the damage from AMR to spread beyond health to the wider economy. It warns that the economic consequences of unchecked resistance could be larger than the disruption of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. According to some estimates, the cumulative cost could reach 100 trillion US dollars by 2050. These costs would come from higher healthcare spending, disrupted food and feed production, damage to trade and livelihoods, and worsening poverty and inequality. The report adds that agriculture could suffer sharp yield losses from resistant fungal crop infections, lower livestock welfare and productivity, and higher prices for the treatments that still work.