Persons with dispensed medicines; origin

Persons with dispensed medicines; origin

Sex Age Origin Medicine group (ATC) Periods Persons with medicines, relative (%) Defined daily doses (DDD), relative (number per 1 000 persons)
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname Total 2022* 69.70 698,752
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A Alimentary tract and metabolism 2022* 32.16 202,457
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A01 Stomatological preparations 2022* 0.59 62
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A01A Stomatological preparations 2022* 0.59 62
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A02 Drugs for acid related disorders 2022* 12.53 44,496
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A02A Antacids 2022* 0.00 1
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A02B Drugs for peptic ulcer and gord 2022* 12.53 44,495
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A02X Oth. drugs for acid related disord. 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A03 Drugs for funct.gastrointest.disord. 2022* 2.55 1,103
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A03A Drugs for functional bowel disord. 2022* 0.57 812
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A03B Belladonna and derivatives, plain 2022* 0.02 2
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A03C Antispasmodics with psycholeptics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A03D Antispasmodics with analgesics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A03E Antispasmodics and anticholinergics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A03F Propulsives 2022* 2.02 290
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A04 Antiemetics and antinauseants 2022* 0.73 61
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A04A Antiemetics and antinauseants 2022* 0.73 61
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A05 Bile and liver therapy 2022* 0.15 337
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A05A Bile therapy 2022* 0.15 337
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A05B Liver therapy, lipotropics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A05C Bile therapy drugs and lipotropics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A06 Laxatives 2022* 8.45 8,637
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A06A Laxatives 2022* 8.45 8,637
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07 Anti diarr/intest/infl/infect.agents 2022* 0.88 4,864
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07A Intestinal antiinfectives 2022* 0.28 66
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07B Intestinal adsorbents 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07C Electrolytes with carbohydrates 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07D Antipropulsives 2022* 0.10 108
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07E Intestinal antiinflammatory agents 2022* 0.52 4,690
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07F Antidiarrheal microorganisms 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A07X Other antidiarrheals 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A08 Antiobesity prep. excl.diet products 2022* 0.00 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A08A Antiobesity prep.excl.diet products 2022* 0.00 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A09 Digestives, incl. enzymes 2022* 0.12 266
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A09A Digestives, incl. enzymes 2022* 0.12 266
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A10 Drugs used in diabetes 2022* 10.07 60,070
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A10A Insulins and analogues 2022* 2.84 13,927
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A10B Blood glucose lowering drugs, excl. 2022* 9.36 46,143
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A10X Other drugs used in diabetes 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11 Vitamins 2022* 15.02 71,374
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11A Multivitamins, combinations 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11B Multivitamins, plain 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11C Vit A and D, incl.combin.of the two 2022* 15.02 71,370
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11D Vitamin B1,and with vit. B6 and B12 2022* 0.01 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11E Vitamin B-complex, incl. combinat. 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11G Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) + combin. 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11H Other plain vitamin preparations 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A11J Other vitamin products + combinat. 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A12 Mineral supplements 2022* 3.91 11,167
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A12A Calcium 2022* 3.73 11,016
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A12B Potassium 2022* 0.18 117
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A12C Other mineral supplements 2022* 0.07 34
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A13 Tonics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A13A Tonics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A14 Anabolic agents for systemic use 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A14A Anabolic steroids 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A14B Other anabolic agents 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A15 Appetite stimulants 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A16 Other aliment.tract/metabol.products 2022* 0.01 18
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname A16A Oth.aliment.tract and metabol.prod. 2022* 0.01 18
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B Blood and blood forming organs 2022* 13.57 47,966
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B01 Antithrombotic agents 2022* 9.04 28,385
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B01A Antithrombotic agents 2022* 9.04 28,385
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B02 Antihemorrhagics 2022* 0.47 109
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B02A Antifibrinolytics 2022* 0.41 81
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B02B Vitamin k and other hemostatics 2022* 0.06 27
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B03 Antianemic preparations 2022* 5.66 19,466
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B03A Iron preparations 2022* 3.97 1,473
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B03B Vitamin B12 and folic acid 2022* 2.02 17,992
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B03X Other antianemic preparations 2022* 0.00 1
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B05 Blood substitutes / perfus.solutions 2022* 0.17 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B05A Blood and related products 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B05B Intravenous solutions 2022* 0.16 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B05C Irrigating solutions 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B05D Peritoneal dialytics 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B05X Intravenous solution additives 2022* 0.01 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B05Z Hemodialytics and hemofiltrates 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B06 Other hematological agents 2022* 0.00 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname B06A Other hematological agents 2022* 0.00 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C Cardiovascular system 2022* 23.61 191,885
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C01 Cardiac therapy 2022* 2.73 4,947
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C01A Cardiac glycosides 2022* 0.14 176
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C01B Antiarrhythmics, class I and III 2022* 0.14 325
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C01C Cardiac stimulants excl. glycosides 2022* 0.54 8
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C01D Vasodilators used in card. diseases 2022* 1.92 4,113
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C01E Other cardiac preparations 2022* 0.13 326
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02 Antihypertensives 2022* 0.54 1,942
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02A Antiadren.agents, centrally acting 2022* 0.10 132
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02B Antiadren.agents, ganglion-blocking 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02C Antiadren.agents, peripher. acting 2022* 0.42 1,744
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02D Arteriolar smooth muscle agents 2022* 0.01 3
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02K Other antihypertensives 2022* 0.02 62
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02L Antihypertensives/diuretics combin. 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C02N Combinations of antihypertensives.. 2022* 0.00 0
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C03 Diuretics 2022* 6.06 17,021
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C03A Low-ceiling diuretics, thiazides 2022* 3.70 7,095
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C03B Low-ceiling diuret.,excl. thiazides 2022* 0.40 849
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C03C High-ceiling diuretics 2022* 1.56 7,545
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C03D Potassium-sparing agents 2022* 1.12 1,341
Total male and female Total age Origin country: Suriname C03E Diuretics/potassium-sparing agents 2022* 0.07 191
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. Also, the number of dispensed defined daily doses (DDDs) are presented. 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.

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

Data available from 2020.

Status of the figures:
Figures for 2022 are provisional.

Changes as of December 20, 2023:
- Provisional figures for 2022 have been added, provisional figures of 2020 and 2021 have been made definite.
- Textual change: the description of drug group Y (Not filled in) has been replaced by Z (Not applicable). However, the underlying resources have remained the same. This category is assigned to products that do not have an ATC code according to the WHO ATC classification system.

When will new figures be published?
New figures will be published in the last quarter of 2024.

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.
Defined daily doses (DDD), relative
Defined Daily Dose (DDD) is de door de WHO vastgestelde gemiddelde dagelijkse dosis van een geneesmiddel, wanneer het geneesmiddel wordt ingezet voor de hoofdindicatie, bij een onderhoudsbehandeling voor volwassenen. Deze definitie maakt het mogelijk om het gebruik van verschillende toedieningsvormen en verschillende middelen met elkaar te vergelijken.

WHO: World Health Organisation, Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie