The revenue of online pharmacies in Russia reached 7.7 trillion Russian rubles in 2023. That marked an increase by approximately 48 percent compared to the previous year. The number of e-pharmacy orders also increased, reaching 142 million in 2022.
Out of approximately 65.5 million pharmacies in Russia, nearly 16 million were given a permit to conduct online sales as of March 2021. To enable the pickup of prescription medications, e-pharmacies cooperated with offline pharmacy chains. Additionally, several online retailers, such as Eapteka, opened their own physical points of sale. The share of e-commerce in total pharmacy sales saw an increase over the course of 2021, exceeding 20 percent in Moscow in December of that year.
Sales revenue of online pharmacies in Russia from 2020 to 2024
(in trillion Russian rubles)
The figures are provided for online pharmacies that made it in the top 1,000 e-commerce in Russia by number of orders.
According to the source, the segment "includes online stores specializing primarily in the sale of medicines. It does not include online stores specializing in the sale of glasses and lenses, medical equipment, dietary supplements and other non-drug health products, nor does it take into account the sales of drugs and other health products by multi-category online retailers."
The statistic has been compiled from several reports by the source.
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