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This raises the question of what level of national action is associated with improved outcomes, including both slower growth and lower\u00a0levels of antibiotic resistance. Answering this question is challenged by variation in data availability and quality as well as disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigate the association between level of national action and temporal trends in multiple indicators related to health system capacity, antibiotic use (ABU), absolute rates of resistance (ABR) and a Drug Resistance Index (DRI). Using the Global Database for Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance (TrACSS) to construct an index of national action, we apply cross-sectional regression across 73 countries to estimate the association between the level of action in 2016 and trends in national indicators (2000\u20132016). We find that national action is consistently associated with improved linear or categorical trends in all groups of indicators. Reductions are associated with a relatively high action index (range 0\u20134) for ABU (median 2.8, 25\u201375% quartile 2.6-3.3), ABR (3.0, 2.4-3.4), and DRI (3.5, 3.1-3.6). These associations are robust to the inclusion of other contextual factors related to socio-economic conditions, human population density, animal production and climate. Since 2016, a majority of both Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and High-Income Countries (HICs) report increased action on repeated questions, while one third of countries report reduced action. The main limitations in interpretation are heterogeneity in data availability and in when actions have been implemented. 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