The following is a list of countries by

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. Global sales from exported drugs and medicines by country total US$371.3 billion in 2018. Overall the value of drugs and medicine exports grew by an average 5.80% for all exporting countries since 2014 when drugs and medicines shipments were valued at $344.1 billion. Year over year, there was a 7.9% uptick from 2017 to 2018. Among continents, European countries sold the highest dollar value worth of exported drugs and medicines during 2018 with shipments from Europe totaling $295.8 billion or 79.70% of the global total. In second place were Asian pharmaceutical exporters at 10.70% while 8.10% of worldwide drugs and medicine shipments originated from North America. Smaller percentages came from drugs and medicines suppliers in Latin America (0.7%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, Oceania (0.5%) led by Australia and New Zealand, then Africa (0.2%). The 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefixes for drugs and medicines are: * 3003 for medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together (4.3% of global total) * 3004 for medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products (95.7%)

2020

Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of drugs and medicines during 2020. # Germany: US$60.8 billion (14.9% of total exported drugs and medicines) # Switzerland: $48.1 billion (11.8%) # Belgium: $31.1 billion (7.6%) # France: $28.4 billion (7%) # Italy: $27.2 billion (6.7%) # United States: $24.7 billion (6.1%) # India: $24.6 billion (6.1%) # Ireland: $23.1 billion (5.7%) # Netherlands: $19.8 billion (4.9%) # United Kingdom: $18.7 billion (4.6%) # Denmark: $16.7 billion (4.1%) # Spain: $10.9 billion (2.7%) # Sweden: $8.9 billion (2.2%) # Canada: $7.6 billion (1.9%) # Slovenia: $7.3 billion (1.8%) By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 85.9% of all exported drugs and medicine for 2020. Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of drugs and medicines from 2019 to 2020 were: Slovenia (up 42.2%), Ireland (up 28.8%), India (up 13.5%) and Italy (up 11.2%). Those countries that posted the slowest gains year over year were: Switzerland (up 0.7%), Canada (up 1.6%), United Kingdom (up 1.6%), United States (up 1.8%) and Germany (up 6.5%).

2014

Data is for 2014, in billions of

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. Currently the top ten countries are listed, which account for more than 75% of the total market value, estimated to be $US 354 billions. Note: The total was calculated excluding the figures for individual member states (for this purpose these include the UK) in order to avoid double-counting.

References

External links

Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Packaged Medicaments (2014)'
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Pharmaceutical A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy ( pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and ...