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3.2 Global overview: the pharmacy supply side descriptions and global comparisons

The total case load for this report (N=109 countries and territories) comprises descriptive data covering around 175,000 graduating students per annum and 2,589 pharmacy and pharmaceutical educational institutions (higher education institutions, HEIs). There are strong correlations with total pharmacists per country and the annual graduating cohort (Figure 3.1, R2 = 0.57, p<0.0001). The WHO African region countries tend to exhibit a tendency for fewer pharmacists and a corresponding proportionally smaller graduate production, a human resource for health situation that was also identified in the 2012 FIP Global Workforce Survey. Figure 3.1 shows the relative graduate production capacity per country in this sample adjusted for country population size.

Figure 3.1: Number of pharmacists and graduating students (per 10,000 population) | n= 95.