Press release No. N 066 of 22 October 2020

• Turnover of pharmacies in the period from January to August 2020 up 3.0% in real terms on a year earlier
• Record turnover in March 2020: real turnover up 18.5% on March 2019
• Roughly 82% of the 250,000 persons employed in pharmacies were women in 2018
  

WIESBADEN - Whether medicines, anti-flu remedies or cosmetic products - pharmacies are a central component of out-patient health care for the population. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the turnover of pharmacies in August 2020 was up 3.8% in price, calendar and seasonally adjusted terms compared with the previous month. Turnover was also higher than before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Compared with the pre-crisis month of February 2020, the price, calendar and seasonally adjusted increase in August amounted to 1.7%.

More results are available on the “Corona statistics“ webpage of the Federal Statistical Office together with other indicators which can be used to assess the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.