Pharma companies worldwide with active R&D pipelines 2001-2025

Published by
Matej Mikulic,
May 6, 2025

This statistic shows the total number of pharmaceutical companies with active R&D pipelines worldwide from 2001 to 2025. In 2001, there were some 1,200 pharmaceutical companies with active R&D pipelines. This number increased up to over 6,800 until January 2025.

Total number of pharmaceutical companies with active R&D pipelines worldwide from 2001 to 2025

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Release date

2025

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2001 to 2025

Supplementary notes

Data are as of January of each year.

* Estimated figure.

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