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Number of Pharmacists (persons), 2014 or latest

Pharmaceutical | February 22, 2018

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Based on a comparison of 26 countries in 2014, Japan ranked the highest in number of pharmacists with 205,716 persons followed by France and United Kingdom. On the other end of the scale was Iceland with 363 persons, Luxembourg with 380 persons and Estonia with 868 persons.

Data for more countries are available at Number of Pharmacists indicator page.

Number of Pharmacists	Unit	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Australia	persons															19,148	19,655	20,281	20,960	21,656		...
Belgium	persons															13,280	13,508	13,643	13,876	14,084		...
Canada	persons	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		32,573	33,203	35,238	36,380	37,500		...
Czechia	persons															6,383	6,724	6,965	7,172	7,308		...
Finland	persons	...		...	...	...										6,020	5,941	...	...	...	...	...
France	persons	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...			69,679	70,136	70,247	70,025	69,346		...
Germany	persons															51,431	52,004	52,568	52,430	53,480		...
Hungary	persons															7,524	7,594	7,039	7,353	7,557		...
Japan	persons	...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...	216,077	...	230,186	...		...
Poland	persons															27,446	27,747	28,121	29,268	29,330	...	...
Portugal	persons															8,068	8,379	8,711	8,788	9,340		...
South Korea	persons	...	...	...	...	...										32,537	32,645	33,206	33,946	36,980		...
Spain	persons															52,100	54,567	55,400	56,167	53,867		...
Sweden	persons															7,268	7,372	7,506	7,612	7,689	...	...
United Kingdom	persons	...	...	...												51,315	53,261	54,380	56,542	58,329