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Share (estimate - in %) accounted for by generics in pharmaceutical market sales value (at ex-factory prices)

 

Note:
Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Slovenia, U.K.: share of generics in pharmacy market sales Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain: share of generics in reimbursable pharmacy market sales Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey: share of generics in total market sales Latvia: 2019 data; Cyprus, Iceland, Malta: data not available France: data relate only to those active substances listed on the official list of medicines

Definition: ‘generic’ means a medicine based on an active substance that is out of patent and which is marketed under a different name from that of the original branded medicine.

Source: EFPIA member associations