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Sourced statistics on healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical technology: health spending, drug sales, the largest pharma and device companies, research and development and market data by country, with the original source named on every chart.
Overview
Healthcare is one of the largest sectors in every developed economy and one of the fastest growing worldwide. Ageing populations, new treatments and rising expectations push health spending higher year after year, while the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries turn research into products that shape both health outcomes and huge markets. A single blockbuster drug or a shift in health policy can move billions in revenue and change how millions are treated.
This category brings together the statistics that describe that sector: how much countries spend on health, how large the pharmaceutical and device markets are, which companies lead and what they sell, and how research, biotech and digital health are changing care. Comparisons across countries show where spending is highest, where access lags and where growth is fastest.
Every chart names the organisation that produced the underlying data and the date it was published, and separates reported figures from estimates and forecasts. Use the topic links above to narrow the list, or scroll to the latest statistics below.
Latest statistics
Newest first. Each chart links to its full page with source and notes.
Topics
Six areas make up the Health, Pharma & Medtech category. Each block lists the indicators we track most often so you know what to expect before opening a chart.
Total and per-capita health spending and its share of GDP, compared across countries and over time.
Indicators: health spending, per-capita spend, share of GDP
The size of the pharmaceutical market, drug sales by region and the therapy areas that lead.
Indicators: pharma market size, drug sales, therapy-area share
The largest pharmaceutical and medical-device companies by revenue and their biggest products.
Indicators: company revenue, top drugs, market share
The medical-device market: size, segments and the firms that dominate diagnostics and equipment.
Indicators: device market size, segment share, largest device firms
Research spending, drug approvals, clinical pipelines and biotech funding.
Indicators: R&D spend, drug approvals, biotech funding
Healthcare access, vaccination and the adoption of digital and telehealth services.
Indicators: access measures, vaccination rates, digital-health adoption
Data sources
We use the organisations that produce or collect the primary data. The specific source and its publication date are shown on each chart.
Global health spending, outcomes and access data.
Health statistics and spending across member countries.
Country health spending and outcomes.
Filings of the largest pharma and device firms.
Drug and device approval data (FDA, EMA and others).
Pharmaceutical and medtech trade bodies.
Health development and access indicators.
Published market-size and forecast reports, cited where used.
Questions
Healthcare, pharmaceutical and medical-technology statistics: health spending, the pharmaceutical and device markets, the largest companies and their products, research and development, biotech, vaccines and digital health.
Primary sources such as the WHO, OECD, national health agencies, drug and device regulators, company filings and industry associations. The source and date are shown on every chart so you can check the figure yourself.
Company results are updated each earnings quarter, and annual health-spending and market data when the source organisation publishes new figures. Each chart shows the date of its last update.
Yes. Reference them in reports, articles and academic work with credit to Business Stats and the original source named on the chart. For commercial reuse of full charts or datasets, contact us first.