Fact Based List:

US Prescriptions Per Capita by Age

  1. 80+ - 29.1
  2. 65-79 - 27.3
  3. 50-64 - 19.2
  4. 26-49 - 9.7
  5. 19-25 - 5.2
  6. 0-18 - 4.2
  7. Overall - 12.2

Source: IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics
Source URL: http://www.imshealth.com/deployedfiles/imshealth/Global/Cont...