Countries by pharmacists per 10,000 people

Monaco had the highest pharmacists per 10,000 people of 141 countries in 2018, at 22.78 per 10,000 people. Madagascar had the lowest, at 0.01 per 10,000 people. The median was 2.2 per 10,000 people. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest22.78Monaco

Lowest0.01Madagascar

Median2.2141 countries

Top 40 countries, 2018

per 10,000 people. Source: World Health Organization, Density of pharmaceutical personnel (per 10 000 population) (HWF_0014). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 per 10,000 people	Change on 2017
1	Monaco	22.78	n/a
2	Japan	18.94	n/a
3	Lebanon	14.82	+9.1%
4	Malta	12.88	-0.4%
5	Ireland	12.82	+11.6%
6	Belgium	12.5	+1%
7	Syria	12.33	-14.7%
8	Italy	11.94	+1.6%
9	Spain	11.81	+2.8%
10	Finland	11.64	+1.5%
11	Canada	11.02	+8.1%
12	Albania	10.8	n/a
13	Seychelles	10.78	n/a
14	Costa Rica	10.34	+5.2%
15	Lithuania	10.28	+3.7%
16	Greece	10.19	-2.6%
17	Andorra	9.71	-0.5%
18	Saudi Arabia	9.59	+4.2%
19	France	9.44	-0.5%
20	Bulgaria	9.24	+2.2%
20	United States	9.24	-0.8%
22	Portugal	9.06	+0.2%
22	United Arab Emirates	9.06	+5.5%
24	Qatar	9.04	+8.1%
25	Romania	8.95	-0.8%
26	Australia	8.78	+0.2%
27	India	8.73	+30.9%
28	United Kingdom	8.57	+1.7%
29	Latvia	8.56	-10.1%
30	Israel	8.09	+0.7%
31	Hungary	8.02	+3.9%
32	Slovakia	8	+2.4%
33	Sweden	7.92	+2.6%
34	Poland	7.81	-1.1%
35	Croatia	7.75	+2.9%
36	South Korea	7.33	+2.1%
37	Estonia	7.22	-0.6%
38	Austria	7.18	+1.1%
39	Slovenia	7.08	+2.6%
40	Belize	7.02	+3.1%
41	Czechia	6.97	+0.6%
42	New Zealand	6.95	+4.7%
43	Mongolia	6.82	+9.3%
44	Switzerland	6.75	+1.5%
45	Germany	6.54	+1.6%
46	Cyprus	6.28	+0.3%
46	Trinidad and Tobago	6.28	-2.2%
48	Argentina	6.03	0%
49	Oman	5.86	+8.7%
50	North Macedonia	5.76	+4.5%
51	Norway	5.69	+2.3%
52	Denmark	5.4	+1.7%
53	Moldova	5.39	+4.7%
54	Chile	5.22	+6.1%
55	Iceland	5.16	+3.6%
56	Singapore	5.15	+2.4%
57	Kazakhstan	4.94	+6.9%
58	Egypt	4.26	+4.9%
59	Belarus	4.25	+4.2%
60	Philippines	4.23	+9.6%
61	Malaysia	4.08	+14.3%
62	Türkiye	3.8	+10.8%
63	Kuwait	3.65	-1.1%
64	China	3.3	+2.8%
65	Iraq	3.12	+12.2%
66	Algeria	3.02	+2%
67	Iran	2.79	+24.6%
68	Cuba	2.69	-1.1%
69	Serbia	2.64	-5%
70	Tajikistan	2.48	+0.4%
71	Maldives	2.2	-57.6%
72	Panama	2.09	0%
73	Netherlands	2.08	+1%
74	Thailand	2.01	+4.1%
75	Montenegro	1.95	+10.8%
76	Timor-Leste	1.88	-7.4%
77	Lesotho	1.82	n/a
78	Namibia	1.8	n/a
79	Brunei	1.76	n/a
80	Turkmenistan	1.6	+0.6%
81	Colombia	1.56	+3.3%
82	Bahrain	1.52	+6.3%
83	Pakistan	1.49	-1.3%
84	Eritrea	1.41	n/a
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.37	+3%
86	Nigeria	1.2	+2.6%
87	Georgia	1.04	-20.6%
88	Gabon	1.03	+83.9%
88	Peru	1.03	n/a
90	Ethiopia	0.95	n/a
91	Nepal	0.93	-4.1%
91	Zimbabwe	0.93	+416.7%
93	Côte d’Ivoire	0.91	n/a
94	Indonesia	0.85	-50.6%
95	Sri Lanka	0.79	+6.8%
96	Myanmar	0.76	+90%
97	Angola	0.74	n/a
98	Rwanda	0.71	-1.4%
99	Botswana	0.68	n/a
100	Azerbaijan	0.62	+5.1%
101	Bhutan	0.57	+18.7%
102	Comoros	0.47	n/a
103	Cambodia	0.46	-4.2%
104	Zambia	0.4	n/a
105	Uzbekistan	0.38	n/a
106	Russia	0.37	0%
107	South Sudan	0.36	n/a
108	Paraguay	0.34	n/a
109	Tanzania	0.32	n/a
110	Haiti	0.31	n/a
110	Kyrgyzstan	0.31	0%
112	Ghana	0.3	+25%
113	Afghanistan	0.29	n/a
113	Republic of the Congo	0.29	n/a
115	Armenia	0.26	-44.7%
115	Togo	0.26	-3.7%
117	Benin	0.25	n/a
118	Eswatini	0.24	n/a
119	Malawi	0.21	n/a
119	Sierra Leone	0.21	n/a
121	Guinea	0.2	n/a
122	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.19	n/a
122	Kenya	0.19	n/a
122	Liberia	0.19	n/a
125	Mauritania	0.18	n/a
126	Jamaica	0.16	n/a
127	Burkina Faso	0.12	-14.3%
127	Papua New Guinea	0.12	-80.6%
129	Mozambique	0.11	+22.2%
130	Burundi	0.1	n/a
131	Guyana	0.09	n/a
131	Mali	0.09	n/a
133	Uganda	0.08	n/a
134	Central African Republic	0.07	n/a
135	Equatorial Guinea	0.06	n/a
135	Guinea-Bissau	0.06	n/a
137	Guatemala	0.04	n/a
138	Niger	0.03	n/a
139	Cameroon	0.01	n/a
139	Gambia	0.01	n/a
139	Madagascar	0.01	n/a

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About this ranking

Pharmacists per 10,000 population (ISCO-08 code 2262), as reported to WHO's National Health Workforce Accounts, divided by the national population. Depending on the country's source, the count covers practising pharmacists only or all registered pharmacists.

Pharmacy technicians and assistants are not counted. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 50 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2018 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Health Organization, data.who.int. Density of pharmaceutical personnel (per 10 000 population) (HWF_0014) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/C668579/45CA7C8 (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Which country has the highest pharmacists per 10,000 people?

Monaco, with 22.78 per 10,000 people in 2018, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest pharmacists per 10,000 people?

Madagascar, with 0.01 per 10,000 people in 2018.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Health Organization, Density of pharmaceutical personnel (per 10 000 population) (HWF_0014). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 50 countries have no value for 2018 and are not ranked.

Pharmacists per 10,000 people: other rankings

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