Datamonitor's Pharmaceuticals Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the pharmaceuticals industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global pharmaceuticals market generated total revenues of $555.5 billion in 2006, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6% for the five-year period spanning 2002-2006.

Cardiovascular drug sales proved the most lucrative for the global pharmaceuticals market in 2006, generating total revenues of $106.2 billion, equivalent to 19.1% of the market's overall value.

The performance of the market is forecast to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 4.8% for the five-year period 2006-2011 expected to drive the market to a value of $703.5 billion by the end of 2011.

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Definition

The pharmaceuticals market consists of ethical drugs only and does not include consumer healthcare or animal healthcare. Market values have been calculated at ex-factory prices (the value at which manufacturers sell the drugs to distributors). Any currency conversions used in the production of this report have been calculated at constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

Market shares are for sales in 2005, the most recent full year results available.

For the purpose of this report, the European market is deemed to consist of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific consists of Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The Americas consists of the US, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.

The global market consists of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.