Is homeopathy popular?
According to the WHO’s global report on traditional and complementary medicine (2019), homeopathy is used in 100 countries around the world.
According to the WHO’s global report on traditional and complementary medicine (2019), homeopathy is used in 100 countries around the world.
While India has the greatest number of homoeopathic practitioners and hospitals in the world, Pakistan and Bangladesh follow a close second. Homeopathy is also popular in Malaysia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Iran.
Outside of Australia homeopathy is popular in New Zealand. It is also practised in parts of Indonesia and used as a main healthcare system in the Solomon Islands.
According to a survey conducted in the USA in 2012, 2.2% of the adult population and 1.8% of children were using homeopathy, and it is accessed by close to 10.3 million Canadians.
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