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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2024
Pharmacy offices Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 2,109
Alt Empordà 75 1,983
Alt Penedès 40 2,855
Alt Urgell 10 2,113
Alta Ribagorça 3 1,347
Anoia 43 2,987
Aran 5 2,109
Bages 75 2,471
Baix Camp 79 2,588
Baix Ebre 37 2,227
Baix Empordà 69 2,079
Baix Llobregat 276 3,075
Baix Penedès 36 3,288
Barcelonès 1,225 1,922
Berguedà 21 1,955
Cerdanya 11 1,829
Conca de Barberà 10 2,057
Garraf 45 3,598
Garrigues 12 1,590
Garrotxa 26 2,402
Gironès 84 2,447
Maresme 162 2,917
Moianès 9 1,640
Montsià 27 2,647
Noguera 22 1,806
Osona 64 2,563
Pallars Jussà 7 1,912
Pallars Sobirà 4 1,833
Pla d'Urgell 18 2,117
Pla de l'Estany 14 2,397
Priorat 9 1,047
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1,475
Ripollès 13 1,987
Segarra 11 2,061
Segrià 84 2,593
Selva 73 2,538
Solsonès 6 2,554
Tarragonès 103 2,671
Terra Alta 10 1,145
Urgell 17 2,267
Vallès Occidental 283 3,392
Vallès Oriental 146 2,922
Catalonia 3,301 2,427
Barcelona 2,388 2,461
Girona 363 2,262
Lleida 202 2,236
Tarragona 348 2,476
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: August 5, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital pharmacy
Pharmacy service within a general hospital, whether public or private.
Pharmacy
Private health establishment of public interest where the managing pharmacist (owner of the establishment, aided, if necessary, by assistants and auxiliaries) must provide the population with a series of basic services. The purpose of a pharmacy is to promote health through the rational use of medications, and its inherent and primordial function is to provide medications.

Methodological aspects

Health establishments require authorisation from the Ministry of Healtht, which is granted by resolution of the Ministry's director general of Regulation, Planning and Health Resources.

Pharmacies must ensure that certain compulsory safety measures are observed. Therefore, before opening or relocating such an establishment, authorisation must be requested. Likewise, when making reformations to essential or compulsory elements of the pharmacy, these must be reported and authorisation for the same must be requested.