Global Pharmaceutical Industry - Statistics & Facts
Statistics and facts about the pharmaceutical industry worldwide
The pharmaceutical industry is responsible for the development, production and marketing of medications. Thus, its immense importance as a global sector is inarguable. In 2014, total pharmaceutical revenues worldwide had exceeded one trillion U.S. dollars for the first time. North America is responsible for the largest portion of these revenues, due to the leading role of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. However, as in many other industries, the Chinese pharmaceutical sector has shown the highest growth rates over previous years.
Still, the leading pharmaceutical companies come from the United States and Europe. Based on prescription sales, NYC-based Pfizer is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. In 2016, the company generated some 52.8 billion U.S. dollars in pure pharmaceutical sales. Other top global players from the United States include Johnson & Johnson, Merck and AbbVie. Novartis and Roche from Switzerland, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca from the United Kingdom, and French Sanofi are the European big five.
Branded, patented medicines by far make up the largest share of pharmaceutical revenues. Humira, an anti-inflammatory drug, generated over 16 billion U.S. dollars of revenue worldwide in 2016. Oncologics continue to be one of the three leading therapeutic classes based on revenue. In 2015, cancer drugs made almost 79 billion U.S. dollars of revenue globally. Other major therapy classes were pain drugs, antihypertensives and antidiabetics.
More than any other industry, the pharmaceutical sector is highly dependent on its research and development segment. Some pharmaceutical companies invest 20 percent and more of their revenues in R&D; measures. The United States is a traditional stronghold of pharmaceutical innovation. The origin of most new substances introduced to the market can be traced back to the United States. Because of the steady loss of patent protection, the invention of new drugs is of vital importance for the pharmaceutical industry. Revenue losses due to patent expiry often are very significant, as can be seen with Pfizer’s Lipitor from 2012 on.
Global pharmaceutical industry - Important statistics
- 1. Overview
- +Pharmaceutical market: worldwide revenue 2001-2015
- +Global pharmaceutical market - revenue distribution 2010-2015 by region
- +World pharmaceutical sales 2014-2016 by region
- +World pharmaceutical market distribution by submarket 2014-2016
- +Top 10 global pharmaceutical markets: growth 2010-2015
- +Top 20 therapeutic classes by global pharmaceutical sales 2015
- +Sales growth of top pharmaceutical therapeutic classes 2015
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- 2. Companies and products
- +Top 50 pharmaceutical companies - Rx sales and R&D; spending 2015
- +2016 list of global top 10 biotech and pharmaceutical companies based on net income
- +Top 10 biotech and pharmaceutical companies based on market value 2016
- Top pharmaceutical products by sales worldwide 2015
- +Revenues of leading global generics manufacturers 2016
- +Top cancer drugs based on revenue worldwide 2015
- +Top pharmaceutical companies by capex growth in three years until 2015
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- 3. Top companies by revenue
- 4. R&D, patents, new entities
- +Total global pharmaceutical R&D; spending 2008-2022
- +Global top pharmaceutical companies based on R&D; spending 2022
- +Small molecules facing loss of developed market exclusivity 2011-2020
- Top U.S. pharmaceutical patent expiries by revenue 2014-2016
- Top branded biologic drugs in the U.S. that will go generic by 2028
- Value of expiring patents in U.S. 2016-2019
- +Pharmaceutical industry - number of new substances 1992-2015
- Projection of new active substance distribution by disease 1996-2020
- First world new molecular entities launched 2004-2015
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- 5. Outlook
- +World pharmaceutical sales by region forecast 2020
- Select medicine spending classes in developed pharma markets 2020
- +Pharmaceutical spending per capita in selected countries 2016
- +Global spending on medicines 2010-2021
- Global spending on medicines by regional share forecast 2020
- Country spending on medicine 2021
- +Leading 25 global pharmaceutical products and respective revenues 2022
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