Table 1.
Status of national medicines policies (NMP) by income level, 2011[13]
| Country income level | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
|
Low (36) |
Lower-middle (53) |
Upper-middle (55) |
High (50) |
Global Total (194) |
|||||
| |
|
Yes |
% |
Yes |
% |
Yes |
% |
Yes |
% |
Yes |
% |
|
responding countries |
Yes |
responding countries |
Yes |
responding countries |
Yes |
responding countries |
Yes |
responding countries |
Yes |
||
|
National Health Policy exists |
Yes |
30 |
96.8 |
34 |
87.2 |
23 |
79.3 |
15 |
83.3 |
102 |
87.2 |
| n |
31 |
|
39 |
|
29 |
|
18 |
|
117 |
|
|
|
NMP exists |
Yes |
31 |
93.9 |
39 |
86.7 |
33 |
68.8 |
30 |
76.9 |
133 |
80.6 |
| n |
33 |
|
45 |
|
48 |
|
39 |
|
165 |
|
|
| NMP implementation plan exists | Yes |
25 |
75.8 |
21 |
47.7 |
24 |
57.1 |
27 |
75.0 |
97 |
62.6 |
| n | 33 | 44 | 42 | 36 | 155 | ||||||