How many pharmacies are there in the world?  We know there are 55,000
in the USA.  7k in Canada.  5k in Australia and 12k in the UK BUT we
need to know the total number of pharmacies by country in the world! 
Help!  You must provide a link to the data so we can reference it.

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 23 Aug 2006 19:47 PDT

Hi woodien,

I have spent most of today (literally) working on your question and
currently have 45 countries completed (mostly in Europe).  There are
192 member countries of the UN and researching them all to find the
number of pharmacies in each, I believe, is beyond the scope of your
posted price (researchers get 75% of the posted amount).  Please let
me know if I can go ahead and post Europe here and then you could post
new questions for the other regions (e.g., Africa, the Americas, Asia,
Middle East).  It's a very time consuming project!

I'll look forward to your reply,
hummer

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Clarification of Question by woodien-ga on 24 Aug 2006 07:25 PDT

This is fine.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 24 Aug 2006 09:15 PDT

woodien-ga,

Just a note to say I fully agree with my colleague that it is
difficult to compile the number of pharmacies per country around the
world.

However, there IS reliable data on the number of pharmacists...perhaps
that measure would be of interest to you as a surrogate statistic.

For instance, here is what the data looks like for a few of the countries listed:

Number of pharmacists per country:

Tuvalu 1  

Uganda 688  

Ukraine 23,576  

United Arab Emirates 1,086  

United Kingdom 29,726   

United States of America 249,642 

Uzbekistan 899
 
Viet Nam 5,977
 
Yemen 2,638 
 
Zambia 1,039 
 
Zimbabwe 883  


Let me know if that information is of interest to you...and if it is,
you may wish to post a new question to request it.

Cheers,

pafalafa-ga

Hi woodien,

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post the data I have
collected for Europe.


EUROPE

 1. Albania: 500 
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020430_12

 2. Andorra: 54
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020430_11

 3. Austria: 
1,172 (see Table 5.1)
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/OBIG%20Report%20-%20final.pdf
1,162
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

 4. Azerbaijan: 1,300
http://www.intracen.org/sstp/doc/azerbaijan%20final%20survey.pdf

 5. Belgium: 
5,269
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020430_5
5,256
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf
 	 	 
 6. Bulgaria: 
4518
http://biozine.kribb.re.kr/kboard_trend/download.php?code=industry_new&no=3930

 7. Croatia:  
840
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

 8. Cyprus:  
436 private pharmacies
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20060718_1
434
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

 9. Czech Republic: 
2 378 (see table 11.1)
http://www.uzis.cz/download_file.php?file=1888
2,107
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

10. Denmark: 
300
http://www.im.dk/publikationer/healthcare_in_dk/all.htm 
287
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020430_1
279
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf
284 (see table)
http://www.apotekerforeningen.dk/pdf/annualreport2001-2002.pdf

11. Estonia:
310 main and 158 branch
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020425_5
307
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

12. Finland: 
802 (see Table 5.8)
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/OBIG%20Report%20-%20final.pdf
799
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf
Pharmacies 2005:  606, branch 193
ttp://www.laaketietokeskus.fi/tiedostot/PHARMAFACTS040406_(ID_1101).pdf

13. France: 
22,697
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

14. Georgia:  
600 registered, 80-100 non-registered and illegal
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020425_3
 
15. Germany:  
21,305
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

16. Greece: 
7,698
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020425_1
9300
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

17. Hungary: 
2,050
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

18. Ireland: 
1,333 (see Table 2.1)
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/OBIG%20Report%20-%20final.pdf
1,230
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

19. Israel: 
about 500 health plans, about 600 independent, about 150 large chains. 
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020417_4

20. Italy: 
16,808
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

21. Kyrgyzstan: 
656 pharmacies, 812 pharmacist points and kiosks 
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020417_1

22. Latvia: 
668
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020416_3
909
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

23. Lithuania: 
1,500
http://www1.urm.lt/newspdf/NF8574390.pdf
970 chemists? shops
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020416_2
675
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

24. Luxembourg: 
53 public, 26 private in 1999 (controlled, numbers remain constant)
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020416_1
82
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

25. Malta: 
203 private
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020415_4 
225
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

26. Republic of Moldova: 
1500 (in 1999)
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020414_9

27. Netherlands (the):
1,732 (see Table 3.1) 
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/OBIG%20Report%20-%20final.pdf
1,707
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

28. Norway: 
535 (see Table 4.1)
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/OBIG%20Report%20-%20final.pdf
502
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

29. Poland:  
10,200 
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020415_1
9,693
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

30. Portugal: 
2,682
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

31. Russian Federation: 
16 000 to 19 000 pharmacies (17% are private)
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020414_7	
59,000 (pharmacies and kiosk)
http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_7534073.pdf

32. Slovakia: 
1,164 public
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020414_5
1,070
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

33. Slovenia: 260
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

34. Spain: 
20,461 (see Table 5.14)
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/OBIG%20Report%20-%20final.pdf
20,098
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

35. Sweden: 
900
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020414_2
870
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

36. Switzerland: 1,650
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

37. Tajikistan: 100 registered	 
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020405_2

38. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: 323
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020405_1

39. Ukraine: 
19,000 (18% private, 52% collective, 30% state).
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020402_2
11460
http://www.sogokon.com/uaruvuk.htm

40. Turkmenistan: 60 private, 374 state (in 1996-97) 
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020402_3

41. Turkey: 20,628
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

42. UK: 10,463
http://www.pgeu.org/webdata/docs/04.09.28E%20008FS%20No%20of%20pharmacies%20TOTAL.pdf

43. Uzbekistan: 3,600
http://www.euro.who.int/pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020321_2

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44. India: about 10,000
http://www.indianmedicine.nic.in/html/ismh/schemes/med_sch.htm

45. Jordan: 1,500 (in 2000)
http://www.jordanembassyus.org/06182001005.htm 

46. Malasia: 
1500
http://202.186.86.35/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/17/focus/15158634&sec=focus
1846
http://www.haiweb.org/medicineprices/surveys/200410MY/survey_report.pdf

I was glad to work on this for you. If you have any questions, please
post a clarification request and wait for me to respond before
closing/rating my answer.

Thank you,
hummer

Some of the Google search terms used: "number of pharmacies" <country>
statistics europe asia africa americas etc

Good answer.  Gave me a lot of what I was looking for.  Almost have
all the data I need.