Pharmacies

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Number of pharmacies based on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's report on public health adminsitration and services. Because on-site pharmacies in hospitals are referred to as dispensing facilities and are not managed by the MHLW, they are not included in the number of pharmacies here. There are 53,304 pharmacies in Japan which is 41.95 per 100 thousand population. This is greater than the number of Convenience Stores (46,991).

Saga has the most number of pharmacies per 100 thousand population, with 60.94. Following Saga in the top 5 are prefectures in Kyushu, Chugoku and Shikoku regions, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Yamaguchi and Kochi. These three areas account for 9 prefectures of the top 10 prefectures, indicating that they can be said to be areas with many pharmacies. The Tohoku region follows these three prefectures. On the contrary, there are few pharmacies in the Kansai, Chubu and Kanto areas.

There seems to be no data in the correlative ranking indicating any causal relationship, but as the number of data increases, it may be possible to find some data with correlation.

PHARMACIES

Source　Report on Public Health Administration and Services (2008)

Rank	Prefectures	Pharmacies		Standard Score
Rank	Prefectures	Amount	per 100000 Population	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Saga	527軒	60.94	78.75
2	Hiroshima	1,621軒	56.60	72.04
3	Fukuoka	2,737軒	54.41	68.66
4	Yamaguchi	800軒	54.06	68.13
5	Kochi	389軒	49.62	61.26
6	Tokushima	395軒	49.01	60.33
7	Tokyo	5,918軒	47.49	57.98
8	Kagawa	484軒	47.48	57.97
9	Nagasaki	696軒	47.37	57.80
10	Miyazaki	549軒	47.29	57.67
11	Kagoshima	822軒	47.27	57.64
12	Miyagi	1,101軒	47.16	57.47
13	Yamanashi	409軒	46.93	57.12
14	Akita	517軒	45.72	55.25
15	Gifu	954軒	45.53	54.95
16	Tottori	270軒	44.82	53.86
17	Niigata	1,068軒	44.26	52.99
18	Oita	535軒	44.02	52.63
19	Iwate	598軒	43.76	52.22
20	Shizuoka	1,641軒	43.47	51.77
21	Yamagata	510軒	42.71	50.61
22	Hyogo	2,369軒	42.44	50.19
23	Fukushima	880軒	42.40	50.12
24	Wakayama	441軒	42.16	49.76
25	Kumamoto	751軒	40.71	47.52
26	Aichi	2,900軒	40.36	46.97
27	Osaka	3,482軒	40.16	46.67
28	Hokkaido	2,232軒	40.06	46.51
29	Okayama	770軒	39.52	45.68
30	Aomori	564軒	39.43	45.54
31	Nagano	853軒	39.19	45.16
32	Okinawa	545軒	39.17	45.15
33	Tochigi	775軒	38.62	44.29
34	Mie	713軒	38.41	43.97
35	Kanagawa	3,370軒	38.30	43.80
36	Ibaraki	1,135軒	38.06	43.43
37	Shimane	273軒	37.24	42.16
38	Gunma	738軒	36.68	41.29
39	Chiba	2,180軒	35.79	39.92
40	Shiga	490軒	35.56	39.57
41	Ehime	517軒	35.13	38.91
42	Nara	497軒	35.01	38.72
43	Kyoto	891軒	34.83	38.43
44	Ishikawa	400軒	34.27	37.58
45	Saitama	2,400軒	33.96	37.10
46	Toyama	360軒	32.54	34.90
47	Fukui	237軒	29.07	29.54
	Japan	53,304軒	41.95