Pharmaceutical products

European Commission Eurostat

Description

Comparative price levels in 33 European countries in 2005
Economy and finance
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 9
• Langue: English

Extrait

Statistics

in focus

ECONOMY AND FINANCE

45/2007

Prices

Author

Paul KONIJN

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Pharmaceutical products – the

survey 2005 ............................... 2

Comparative price levels of

pharmaceutical products ......... 2

Price dispersion of

pharmaceutical products ......... 3

Phar m ac eut ic al pr oduc t s -

c om par at ive pric e levels in

33 Eur opean c ount ries in

2005

In the framework of the joint Eurostat–OECD Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Programme, surveys on prices of goods and services are carried out by

National Statistical Institutes (NSIs). 37 countries are currently participating in

the surveys co-ordinated by Eurostat

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. The OECD co-ordinates the surveys

for the 12 non-European OECD Member States. These spatial price surveys

are corner stones of the work resulting in annual volume comparisons of the

National Accounts aggregates: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its main

components. This article provides results of the pharmaceutical products price

survey carried out in November 2005 for 33 countries.

Chart 1: Price level indices for pharmaceutical products, EU25=100

68

69

70

70

71

71

72

73

86

91

93

102

103

106

106

107

109

111

119

120

121

128

160

187

94

95

77

79

74

73

58

118

79

0

50

100

150

200

MK

PL

TR

LT

RO

SK

CZ

BG

HR

EL

HU

ES

LV

EE

SI

FR

UK

PT

SE

CY

LU

BE

MT

AT

NL

FI

IT

IE

NO

DK

DE

IS

CH

100

115

160

85

60

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These are the 27 EU Member States,

the 3 Candidate Countries Croatia, the former Yugoslav

Republic of Macedonia (MK; see METHODOLOGICAL NOTES) and Turkey, the 3 EFTA

countries Iceland, Norway and Switzerland and 4 more Western Balkan Countries Albania,

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. In this article, however, the data of the latter 4

countries are not yet presented.



Manuscript completed on: 02.04.2007

Data extracted on: 19.12.2006

ISSN 1977-0316

Catalogue number: KS-SF-07-045-EN-N

© European Communities, 2007