* Note:
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Top 10 pharma companies 鈥:
Pharma companies ranked
within the top ten worldwide
by pharma sales.
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Other large biopharma
companies 鈥: Biopharma
companies ranked between
11 and 30 in terms of
worldwide sales.
鈥
Mid sized biopharma
companies 鈥: Companies with
significant sales of usually
between $100 million and
$1.
鈥
Smaller biopharma
companies 鈥: = Other smaller
biopharma companies.
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Origin of new drugs licensed or acquired, 2014-2018, by company size
Of the FDA approved drugs in the period 2014-2018, 71 percent that were licensed or acquired originated from a smaller biopharma company.
This statistic presents the percentage of origin of FDA-approved new drugs from 2014 to 2018 that were licensed or acquired, by company size.
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