Drug access (most recent) by country

DEFINITION
Population with access to essential drugs 2000. The data on access to essential drugs are based on statistical estimates received from World Health Organization (WHO) country and regional offices and regional advisers and through the World Drug Situation Survey carried out in 1998-99. These estimates represent the best information available to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy to date and are currently being validated by WHO member states. The department assigns the estimates to four groupings: very low access (0-49%), low access (50-79%), medium access (80-94%) and good access (95-100%). These groupings, used here in presenting the data, are often employed by the WHO in interpreting the data, as the actual estimates may suggest a higher level of accuracy than the data afford. b.

Health Statistics > Drug access (most recent) by country

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Rank

Countries

Amount

= 1

Luxembourg:

95%

= 1

Australia:

95%

= 1

Israel:

95%

= 1

Austria:

95%

= 1

Portugal:

95%

= 1

Bahrain:

95%

= 1

Jordan:

95%

= 1

Barbados:

95%

= 1

Netherlands:

95%

= 1

Belgium:

95%

= 1

Singapore:

95%

= 1

Canada:

95%

= 1

Japan:

95%

= 1

Sri Lanka:

95%

= 1

Kuwait:

95%

= 1

Costa Rica:

95%

= 1

Mauritius:

95%

= 1

Cuba:

95%

= 1

Suriname:

95%

= 1

Cyprus:

95%

= 1

Saudi Arabia:

95%

= 1

Denmark:

95%

= 1

Iceland:

95%

= 1

Ireland:

95%

= 1

Italy:

95%

= 1

Estonia:

95%

= 1

Jamaica:

95%

= 1

Finland:

95%

= 1

Korea, South:

95%

= 1

Fiji:

95%

= 1

Slovakia:

95%

= 1

France:

95%

= 1

Libya:

95%

= 1

Grenada:

95%

= 1

Malta:

95%

= 1

Germany:

95%

= 1

Norway:

95%

= 1

Greece:

95%

= 1

New Zealand:

95%

= 1

Croatia:

95%

= 1

Qatar:

95%

= 1

Hungary:

95%

= 1

Slovenia:

95%

= 1

Spain:

95%

= 1

United Kingdom:

95%

= 1

Thailand:

95%

= 1

Sweden:

95%

= 1

Algeria:

95%

= 1

Switzerland:

95%

= 1

Turkey:

95%

= 1

United Arab Emirates:

95%

= 1

United States:

95%

= 1

Swaziland:

95%

= 54

Lesotho:

80%

= 54

Venezuela:

80%

= 54

Cote d'Ivoire:

80%

= 54

El Salvador:

80%

= 54

Romania:

80%

= 54

Gambia, The:

80%

= 54

Latvia:

80%

= 54

Indonesia:

80%

= 54

Mexico:

80%

= 54

Botswana:

80%

= 54

Bahamas, The:

80%

= 54

South Africa:

80%

= 54

Belize:

80%

= 54

Namibia:

80%

= 54

Solomon Islands:

80%

= 54

Czech Republic:

80%

= 54

Bhutan:

80%

= 54

Guinea:

80%

= 54

Bulgaria:

80%

= 54

Iran:

80%

= 54

China:

80%

= 54

Lebanon:

80%

= 54

Chile:

80%

= 54

Lithuania:

80%

= 54

Comoros:

80%

= 54

Oman:

80%

= 54

Colombia:

80%

= 54

Poland:

80%

= 54

Cape Verde:

80%

= 54

Papua New Guinea:

80%

= 54

Djibouti:

80%

= 54

Seychelles:

80%

= 54

Dominica:

80%

= 54

Syria:

80%

= 54

Egypt:

80%

= 54

Vietnam:

80%

= 54

Panama:

80%

= 91

Philippines:

50%

= 91

Zimbabwe:

50%

= 91

Azerbaijan:

50%

= 91

Turkmenistan:

50%

= 91

Albania:

50%

= 91

Mozambique:

50%

= 91

Argentina:

50%

= 91

Saint Lucia:

50%

= 91

Bangladesh:

50%

= 91

Uruguay:

50%

= 91

Bolivia:

50%

= 91

Maldives:

50%

= 91

Burma:

50%

= 91

Peru:

50%

= 91

Benin:

50%

= 91

Saint Kitts and Nevis:

50%

= 91

Belarus:

50%

= 91

Antigua and Barbuda:

50%

= 91

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

50%

= 91

Ukraine:

50%

= 91

Cameroon:

50%

= 91

Yemen:

50%

= 91

Central African Republic:

50%

= 91

Mauritania:

50%

= 91

Dominican Republic:

50%

= 91

Malaysia:

50%

= 91

Eritrea:

50%

= 91

Niger:

50%

= 91

Ethiopia:

50%

= 91

Pakistan:

50%

= 91

Guatemala:

50%

= 91

Russia:

50%

= 91

Kyrgyzstan:

50%

= 91

Senegal:

50%

= 91

Kazakhstan:

50%

= 91

Trinidad and Tobago:

50%

= 91

Laos:

50%

= 91

Tunisia:

50%

= 91

Madagascar:

50%

= 91

Uganda:

50%

= 91

Mongolia:

50%

= 91

Burkina Faso:

50%

= 91

Mali:

50%

= 91

Uzbekistan:

50%

= 91

Morocco:

50%

= 91

Zambia:

50%

= 91

Togo:

50%

= 138

India:

= 138

Rwanda:

= 138

Angola:

= 138

Nepal:

= 138

Brazil:

= 138

Armenia:

= 138

Burundi:

= 138

Malawi:

= 138

Cambodia:

= 138

Paraguay:

= 138

Chad:

= 138

Sudan:

= 138

Ecuador:

= 138

Honduras:

= 138

Equatorial Guinea:

= 138

Kenya:

= 138

Gabon:

= 138

Nigeria:

= 138

Georgia:

= 138

Nicaragua:

= 138

Ghana:

= 138

Guinea-Bissau:

= 138

Guyana:

= 138

Sierra Leone:

= 138

Haiti:

= 138

Tajikistan:

Weighted average:

63.5%

DEFINITION: Population with access to essential drugs 2000. The data on access to essential drugs are based on statistical estimates received from World Health Organization (WHO) country and regional offices and regional advisers and through the World Drug Situation Survey carried out in 1998-99. These estimates represent the best information available to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy to date and are currently being validated by WHO member states. The department assigns the estimates to four groupings: very low access (0-49%), low access (50-79%), medium access (80-94%) and good access (95-100%). These groupings, used here in presenting the data, are often employed by the WHO in interpreting the data, as the actual estimates may suggest a higher level of accuracy than the data afford. b.

SOURCE: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva

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