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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 25.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Med Inform. 2017 Oct 4;108:85–91. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.10.003

Table 2.

Top 30 countries ranked by their recruitment site counts.

Rank Country #Trial # Sites %Trial Rank Country #Trials # Sites %Trial
1 United States 81148 681987 31.6% 16 Poland 3817 20383 1.5%
2 Canada 13084 49937 5.1% 17 Taiwan 3767 8130 1.5%
3 Germany 12222 92552 4.8% 18 Switzerland 3715 7585 1.4%
4 France 11370 81351 4.4% 19 Sweden 3706 10278 1.4%
5 United Kingdom 9760 38695 3.8% 20 Japan 3406 44942 1.3%
6 Italy 7253 37682 2.8% 21 Austria 3282 8538 1.3%
7 Spain 6760 36253 2.6% 22 Russian Federation 2862 20181 1.1%
8 Korea, Republic of 5794 17474 2.3% 23 Czech Republic 2662 12809 1.0%
9 Netherlands 5738 17276 2.2% 24 India 2539 11635 1.0%
10 China 5503 20013 2.1% 25 Norway 2431 5221 0.9%
11 Belgium 5496 19537 2.1% 26 Hungary 2417 11672 0.9%
12 Israel 4944 10622 1.9% 27 Mexico 2220 7973 0.9%
13 Denmark 4619 9329 1.8% 28 South Africa 1942 7879 0.8%
14 Australia 4399 18181 1.7% 29 Finland 1935 5115 0.8%
15 Brazil 4148 12519 0.016 30 Argentina 1822 9014 0.007