Published in The Lancet scientific journal, following a 520 million data assessment, the study specifies that the effect will be dramatic among those over 70 years old, for whom the incidence will rise from 72 percent in high-income countries to 234 percent in North Africa and the Middle East.

On the verge of entering what scientists deem as the post-antibiotic era, this stage began to show its lethal evidence 30 years ago.

Since then and up to the beginning of the current decade, more than one million people (between 1.06 and 1.14 million) have died annually from antimicrobial resistance, with particular incidence on those over 70 years of age.

At that period of life, the death toll due to antimicrobial resistance increases by 80 percent, according to the new study by the Global Research Project on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM).

Should this scenario persist, the figure could double by 2050, eventually rising to 1.91 million direct annual deaths, which would add to other AMR-related deaths.

Including the latter cases, deaths will increase by almost 75 percent, between 4.71 million and 8.22 million per year, researchers indicated.

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