Medicines consumption
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Statistics for medicines consumption is one of the integral components of the pharmaceutical industry. It allows analysing and monitoring the consumption of medicines within the country and to plan future actions.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
Turnover of goods sold in pharmacies in Latvia.
Sales turnover of medicine wholesalers and medicine manufactures in Latvia and abroad.
Statistical population
- Medicine wholesalers;
- Pharmacies;
- Medicine manufacturers.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
- Licensed medicine wholesalers submit the required information in accordance with Paragraph 18 of the Cabinet Regulation No 416 "Procedures Regarding the Distribution and Quality Control of Medicinal Products" of 26 June 2007.
- Medicine wholesalers submit the required information in accordance with Paragraph 9.2. of the Cabinet Regulation No 720 "Regulation on Questionnaire Forms for Official Statistics in the Field of Health Care" of 27 November 2018.
- Pharmacies submit the required information in accordance with Paragraph 9.3. of the Cabinet Regulation No 720 "Regulation on Questionnaire Forms for Official Statistics in the Field of Health Care" of 27 November 2018.
- Medicine manufacturers submit the required information in accordance with Paragraph 9.1. of the Cabinet Regulation No 720 "Regulation on Questionnaire Forms for Official Statistics in the Field of Health Care" of 27 November 2018.
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
Antimicrobial consumption dashboard (ESAC-Net)
This dashboard shows European Union/European Economic Area (EEA) reference data from the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net).
Length of comparable time series
Comparable data are available on the Official Statistics Portal since 2019.
On the homepage of the State Agency of Medicines data are published for the period since 2010.
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
- Information on medicines sale in the previous month received from the medicine wholesalers*
- Report on activities of medicine wholesalers**
- Report on activities of medicine manufacturers**
- Report on activities of pharmacies**
* Data in State Agency of Medicines information system, medicines consumption statistics module.
** Data in official statistics reports (questionnaires) submitted by businesses.
Data collection
- Medicine wholesalers’ total sales turnover (million euro), monthly (in Latvia, abroad)*
- Medicine wholesalers’ medicine sales to general pharmacies (million euro), monthly (in Latvia)*
- Average medicines wholesale price per packaging (euro), monthly (in Latvia)*
- Total sales turnover of authorised and unauthorised medicines (million euro), monthly (in Latvia)*
- Medicine wholesalers’ and medicine manufacturers’ sales turnover (million euro), annual (in Latvia, abroad)**
- Pharmacies’ sales turnover (million euro), annual (in Latvia)**
* Data in State Agency of Medicines information system, medicines consumption statistics module.
** Data in official statistics reports (questionnaires) submitted by businesses.
Data compilation
Medicines consumption statistics is produced based on the authorised medicines wholesalers sales figures submitted to the State Agency of Medicines. However, it must be considered that some amount of the medicines may still be in the sales chain (at a pharmacy or a medical treatment institution) and is yet to reach the patient.