Half of Colombian patients now leave without all their prescribed medicines

Line chart 2018 to 2025: full medicine delivery for all patients moved between 61 and 68 percent until 2024 and fell to 53.1 in 2025; for patients with a chronic condition it held near 66 percent and fell to 50.6 in 2025, a sixteen-point drop in one year.

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Full delivery of all prescribed medicines among patients with a prescription. Both 2025 values are series minimums. The question identifying chronic conditions changed wording in 2023, so the chronic group is not strictly comparable across that year.

Chart: DecilionSource: Decilion analysis of DANE ECV microdata, 2018-2025Get the data