Global Pharmaceutical Market Forecast to 2012

Han hecho una actualización de su estudio del 2006. Analiza los 34 mercados mas importantes a nivel mundial.

Factual insight, supplemented with statistical overview on the past, present and future, together with statistics and analysis pertaining to market size, growth, segmentation, government policies, healthcare indicators, key players, health coverage, new developments and future prospects has been provided for each market.

Estas son, en resumen, las mas importantes conclusiones:

- Growing at a CAGR of around 8%, the global pharmaceutical market is forecasted to reach US$ 1043.4 Billion in 2012.

- North America remains the largest pharmaceutical market constituting 42.8% of the global sales in 2007. Growth in the region is however expected to slow down in near future owing to patent expiration of key drugs and increased prevalence of generics.

- In Europe, growth in the top five markets is expected to remain sluggish in next five years. Emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe is however expected to drive growth in future.

- A large untapped population and strong economic growth in major countries is expected to make Asia-Pacific the most lucrative pharmaceutical market in future.

- Growth in the Latin American markets is expected to be strong with Brazil and Mexico amongst the most emerging pharmaceutical markets in the world.

- Dwindling drug pipelines and patent expiration of a number of blockbuster drugs may challenge the growth of global pharmaceutical market in future.