Publications about pharmacies - Danish Medicines Agency

16 January 2012 /Statistics, prices and reimbursement

Sale of painkilling OTC medicines 1996-2010

Danes' use of painkillers bought over the counter is often debated. The Danish Medicines Agency's website on medicine sales in Denmark, www.medstat.dk, shows that the consumption of pain-relieving OTC medicines increased by 23 per cent from 1996 to 2010. When we take into account the population growth in the same period and look at the consumption per 1,000 inhabitants, the increase is 17 per cent. To shed further light on this figure, this report looks more closely at the distribution of sales between the different active substances and the different pack sizes, as well as at the quantity of these OTC medicines sold on prescription.

03 January 2012 | Updated 04 January 2012 /Statistics, prices and reimbursement

Sales of liberalised OTC medicines from 1996 to 2010 in Denmark

In Denmark, the sale of the OTC medicines which today can be sold outside pharmacies has increased by approx. 85 per cent from 1996 to 2010 measured in volume sold (defined daily doses (DDD)) and has about doubled measured in DKK. In comparison, sales in all OTC medicines have increased by approx. 60 per cent measured in DKK and by approx. 30 per cent measured in defined daily doses in the same period.