Top countries by pharmaceutical industry employment 2014

Published by
Matej Mikulic,
Dec 14, 2018
This statistic displays the top 20 countries worldwide based on the number of people employed in the pharmaceutical industry as of 2014. The pharmaceutical industry in Japan counted over 91,500 employees that year.

Top 20 countries by pharmaceutical employment as of 2014*

CharacteristicNumber of employees
China 2,301,534
India 567,469
United States 251,995
Germany 128,000
Brazil 105,253
Japan 91,529
Russian Federation 66,523
Indonesia 64,059
Italy 59,300
Mexico 51,125
Thailand 48,000
Egypt 47,753
France 47,000
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