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• Independent pharmacy prescription sales for the year 2001 totaled 53 billion dollars
• In 2001, independent pharmacies dispensed 1.32 billion prescriptions; a number that has increased annually since such statistics have been maintained.
• Independent pharmacies equal 44 percent of the total retail prescription market.
• Prescription medicines make up 88 percent of total annual sales for independent pharmacies nationwide.
• Average annual sales for independent pharmacies in the year 2001 were $2.45 million; up over six percent over 2000.
• Average prescription sales were $2.15 million in 2001; an increase of almost ten percent over 2000.
• The average number of prescriptions dispensed per independent pharmacy was 53,808 in 2001; an average of 172 per day.
• There are nearly 25,000 single-store independent pharmacies, independent chains, independent franchises, and independent pharmacist-owned supermarket pharmacies.
• 44 percent of the 55,581 total pharmacies in the United States are independent pharmacies.