An efficient reporting system has seen all the listed multinational pharmaceutical companies announcing results for 2022, which has given us the opportunity to update our industry statistics and drug database. This report provides the first snapshot of the global and US rankings of the top 20 drug companies for 2022. 2022 was characterised by 8.7% underlying growth, offset by a large forex impact (-12%), due to USD strength. Much of the growth was driven by antibody-derived drugs and vaccines for treatment and prevention of COVID-19. A worrying sign was the unusually large number of drugs that saw sales decline in the past year.
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