Persons with dispensed medicines; background; 2006-2020

Persons with dispensed medicines; background; 2006-2020

Sex Age Background and generation Medicine group (ATC) Periods Persons with medicines, relative (%)
Total male and female Total age With migration background Total 2020 56.54
Total male and female Total age With migration background A Alimentary tract and metabolism 2020 22.52
Total male and female Total age With migration background A01 Stomatological preparations 2020 0.19
Total male and female Total age With migration background A01A Stomatological preparations 2020 0.19
Total male and female Total age With migration background A02 Drugs for acid related disorders 2020 9.81
Total male and female Total age With migration background A02A Antacids 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A02B Drugs for peptic ulcer and gord 2020 9.81
Total male and female Total age With migration background A02X Oth. drugs for acid related disord. 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A03 Drugs for funct.gastrointest.disord. 2020 2.04
Total male and female Total age With migration background A03A Drugs for functional bowel disord. 2020 0.52
Total male and female Total age With migration background A03B Belladonna and derivatives, plain 2020 0.02
Total male and female Total age With migration background A03C Antispasmodics with psycholeptics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A03D Antispasmodics with analgesics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A03E Antispasmodics and anticholinergics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A03F Propulsives 2020 1.56
Total male and female Total age With migration background A04 Antiemetics and antinauseants 2020 0.38
Total male and female Total age With migration background A04A Antiemetics and antinauseants 2020 0.38
Total male and female Total age With migration background A05 Bile and liver therapy 2020 0.08
Total male and female Total age With migration background A05A Bile therapy 2020 0.08
Total male and female Total age With migration background A05B Liver therapy, lipotropics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A05C Bile therapy drugs and lipotropics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A06 Laxatives 2020 6.52
Total male and female Total age With migration background A06A Laxatives 2020 6.52
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07 Anti diarr/intest/infl/infect.agents 2020 0.99
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07A Intestinal antiinfectives 2020 0.58
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07B Intestinal adsorbents 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07C Electrolytes with carbohydrates 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07D Antipropulsives 2020 0.07
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07E Intestinal antiinflammatory agents 2020 0.35
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07F Antidiarrheal microorganisms 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A07X Other antidiarrheals 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A08 Antiobesity prep. excl.diet products 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A08A Antiobesity prep.excl.diet products 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A09 Digestives, incl. enzymes 2020 0.07
Total male and female Total age With migration background A09A Digestives, incl. enzymes 2020 0.07
Total male and female Total age With migration background A10 Drugs used in diabetes 2020 4.95
Total male and female Total age With migration background A10A Insulins and analogues 2020 1.59
Total male and female Total age With migration background A10B Blood glucose lowering drugs, excl. 2020 4.41
Total male and female Total age With migration background A10X Other drugs used in diabetes 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11 Vitamins 2020 8.11
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11A Multivitamins, combinations 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11B Multivitamins, plain 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11C Vit A and D, incl.combin.of the two 2020 8.11
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11D Vitamin B1,and with vit. B6 and B12 2020 0.01
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11E Vitamin B-complex, incl. combinat. 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11G Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) + combin. 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11H Other plain vitamin preparations 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A11J Other vitamin products + combinat. 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A12 Mineral supplements 2020 2.53
Total male and female Total age With migration background A12A Calcium 2020 2.41
Total male and female Total age With migration background A12B Potassium 2020 0.12
Total male and female Total age With migration background A12C Other mineral supplements 2020 0.03
Total male and female Total age With migration background A13 Tonics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A13A Tonics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A14 Anabolic agents for systemic use 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A14A Anabolic steroids 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A14B Other anabolic agents 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A15 Appetite stimulants 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background A16 Other aliment.tract/metabol.products 2020 0.01
Total male and female Total age With migration background A16A Oth.aliment.tract and metabol.prod. 2020 0.01
Total male and female Total age With migration background B Blood and blood forming organs 2020 9.34
Total male and female Total age With migration background B01 Antithrombotic agents 2020 6.33
Total male and female Total age With migration background B01A Antithrombotic agents 2020 6.33
Total male and female Total age With migration background B02 Antihemorrhagics 2020 0.25
Total male and female Total age With migration background B02A Antifibrinolytics 2020 0.20
Total male and female Total age With migration background B02B Vitamin k and other hemostatics 2020 0.06
Total male and female Total age With migration background B03 Antianemic preparations 2020 3.54
Total male and female Total age With migration background B03A Iron preparations 2020 2.43
Total male and female Total age With migration background B03B Vitamin B12 and folic acid 2020 1.25
Total male and female Total age With migration background B03X Other antianemic preparations 2020 0.07
Total male and female Total age With migration background B05 Blood substitutes / perfus.solutions 2020 0.16
Total male and female Total age With migration background B05A Blood and related products 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background B05B Intravenous solutions 2020 0.15
Total male and female Total age With migration background B05C Irrigating solutions 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background B05D Peritoneal dialytics 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background B05X Intravenous solution additives 2020 0.01
Total male and female Total age With migration background B05Z Hemodialytics and hemofiltrates 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background B06 Other hematological agents 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background B06A Other hematological agents 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background C Cardiovascular system 2020 15.21
Total male and female Total age With migration background C01 Cardiac therapy 2020 1.67
Total male and female Total age With migration background C01A Cardiac glycosides 2020 0.23
Total male and female Total age With migration background C01B Antiarrhythmics, class I and III 2020 0.19
Total male and female Total age With migration background C01C Cardiac stimulants excl. glycosides 2020 0.25
Total male and female Total age With migration background C01D Vasodilators used in card. diseases 2020 1.04
Total male and female Total age With migration background C01E Other cardiac preparations 2020 0.06
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02 Antihypertensives 2020 0.27
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02A Antiadren.agents, centrally acting 2020 0.06
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02B Antiadren.agents, ganglion-blocking 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02C Antiadren.agents, peripher. acting 2020 0.20
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02D Arteriolar smooth muscle agents 2020 0.01
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02K Other antihypertensives 2020 0.01
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02L Antihypertensives/diuretics combin. 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background C02N Combinations of antihypertensives.. 2020 0.00
Total male and female Total age With migration background C03 Diuretics 2020 4.06
Total male and female Total age With migration background C03A Low-ceiling diuretics, thiazides 2020 2.32
Total male and female Total age With migration background C03B Low-ceiling diuret.,excl. thiazides 2020 0.27
Total male and female Total age With migration background C03C High-ceiling diuretics 2020 1.25
Total male and female Total age With migration background C03D Potassium-sparing agents 2020 0.68
Total male and female Total age With migration background C03E Diuretics/potassium-sparing agents 2020 0.10
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Dataset is not available.


This table contains figures on the absolute number of persons to whom in the year concerned medicines were dispensed for which the costs are reimbursed under the statutory basic medical insurance. The figures are also expressed as a percentage of the total population in the category concerned. The population includes everybody registered in the Basic Registration of Persons (BRP) and living in the Netherlands at some point in the year concerned. Until 2010 the figures also included medicines dispensed to persons registered in the BRP, but no longer resident in the Netherlands.
Medicines provided to persons in hospitals and nursing homes are not included; medicines provided in residential homes for the elderly are included.
CBS is switching to a new population classification by origin. Greater emphasis will be placed on where a person was born and less on where their parents were born. The term ‘migration background’ will no longer be used in this regard. The main categories western/non-western will be replaced by categories based on continents and a few countries that share a specific migration history with the Netherlands. This classification will gradually been introduced in tables and publications with population by origin.

Data are broken down by medicine group, background, generation, age and sex.

Data available from 2006 to 2020.

Status of the figures:
All figures are definite.

Changes as of 14 December, 2022:
Figures for 2020 have been made final without change and the table has been stopped due to the introduction of the new classification of population by origin.

When will new figures be published?
Not applicable, the table has been stopped. This table will be replaced by the new table 'Persons with dispensed medicines; origin', see chapter 3.

Description topics

Persons with medicines, relative
Number of persons to whom medicines are dispensed in the year concerned that are reimbursed under the statutory basic medical insurance, expressed as a percentage of the total population of the category concerned registered in the Basic Registration of Persons (BRP) in that year.