Although pharmacies are lot more prevalent in France than many other countries, the French are not the European leaders in this field. Graphic: OECDIn fact France has fewer pharmacies per head of the population than Greece, Spain, Belgium, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, Ireland and Poland. The places in France with the highest density of pharmacies are Paris and the départements of central France – although that probably relates more to central France’s low population density than an abundance of pharmacies. Overall the number of pharmacies in France is falling, from 22,514 in 2007 to 21,192 in 2017. Pharmacies in France usually also sell a wide variety of homeopathic remedies which are extremely popular, although from 2020 the government has stopped funding these.

Source: The Local March 08, 2021 11:15 UTC