The BRIC countries are all at about the same level of development. Their combined population is around 3,938,300,000, or about 54 percent of the world’s total. Then there is the rest of the planet; approximately 2,494,400,000 people, making up the remaining 34 percent. As much difficulty as we’re having controlling antibiotic resistance in “our” 12 percent of the population, for the remaining 88 percent, we believe the situation to be a whole lot worse.
