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The following is a list of countries by [[Chemistry:Pharmaceutical|pharmaceutical]] exports.

Global sales from exported drugs and medicines by country total US$371.3 billion in 2018. Overall the value of drugs and medicine exports grew by an average 5.80% for all exporting countries since 2014 when drugs and medicines shipments were valued at $344.1 billion. Year over year, there was a 7.9% uptick from 2017 to 2018.

Among continents, European countries sold the highest dollar value worth of exported drugs and medicines during 2018 with shipments from Europe totaling $295.8 billion or 79.70% of the global total. In second place were Asian pharmaceutical exporters at 10.70% while 8.10% of worldwide drugs and medicine shipments originated from North America.

Smaller percentages came from drugs and medicines suppliers in Latin America (0.7%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, Oceania (0.5%) led by Australia and New Zealand, then Africa (0.2%).

The 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefixes for drugs and medicines are:

* 3003 for medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together (4.3% of global total)
* 3004 for medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products (95.7%)

==2021==
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of drugs and medicines during 2021.
# Germany: US$64.7 billion (15.2% of total drugs and medicines exports)
# Switzerland: $50.3 billion (11.8%)
# Belgium: $33.3 billion (7.8%)
# United States of America: $30.5 billion (7.1%)
# France: $27.4 billion (6.4%)
# Italy: $26.1 billion (6.1%)
# Ireland: $22.7 billion (5.3%)
# Netherlands: $19.7 billion (4.6%)
# United Kingdom: $19.2 billion (4.5%)
# India: $17.5 billion (4.1%)
# Denmark: $16 billion (3.8%)
# Spain: $11.4 billion (2.7%)
# Canada: $8.6 billion (2%)
# Slovenia: $8.5 billion (2%)
# Sweden: $8.1 billion (1.9%)  

By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 85.3% of all exported drugs and medicine for 2021.

Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of drugs and medicines from 2019 to 2020 were: Slovenia (up 42.2%), Ireland (up 28.8%), India (up 13.5%) and Italy (up 11.2%).

Those countries that posted the slowest gains year over year were: Switzerland (up 0.7%), Canada (up 1.6%), United Kingdom (up 1.6%), United States (up 1.8%) and Germany (up 6.5%).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Drugs and Medicine Exports by Country 2020|url=https://www.worldstopexports.com/drugs-medicine-exports-country/|access-date=2021-12-27|website=www.worldstopexports.com}}</ref>

==2014==
Data is for 2014, in billions of {{wipe|United States dollar}}s, as reported by [[Finance:The Observatory of Economic Complexity|The Observatory of Economic Complexity]]. Currently the top ten countries are listed, which account for more than 75% of the total market value, estimated to be $US 354 billions.

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheads" ;"
! scope="col" | #
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Value<br>US$bn
! scope="col" | World market<br>share
|-
|—||{{flagicon|European Union}} [[Social:European Union|European Union]]||178||51.2%
|-
|1||{{flagcountry|Germany}}||50||16%
|-
|2||{{flagcountry|United States}}||38.1||11%
|-
|3||{{flagcountry|Switzerland}}||34.1||9.6%
|-
|4||{{flagcountry|Spain}}||27.5||7.8%
|-
|5||{{flagcountry|Ireland}}||22.8||6.4%
|-
|6||{{flagcountry|Belgium}} + {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}}||20.9||5.9%
|-
|7||{{flagcountry|United Kingdom}}||19.6||5.6%
|-
|8||{{flagcountry|Netherlands}}||14.3||4%
|-
|9||{{flagcountry|India}}||12.1||3.4%
|-
! colspan=2|Total
!262.3
!75.3%
|}

Note: The total was calculated excluding the figures for individual member states (for this purpose these include the UK) in order to avoid double-counting.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/show/all/3004/2014/ Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Packaged Medicaments (2014)']

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