Ukraine had the highest generic pharmaceutical market share among presented Eastern European and Central Asian countries, measuring at 98 percent in 2018. Tajikistan reported the lowest portion of generics at 60 percent.
Share of generic medicines in the pharmaceutical market volume in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2018, by selected country*
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies defined a generic medicine as "a pharmaceutical product (medicine) which has the same qualitative and quantitative composition in active substances and the same pharmaceutical form as the reference medicine, and whose bioequivalence with the reference medicine has been demonstrated by appropriate bioavailability studies" (page 37).
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