This statistic displays the annual growth in worldwide revenues generated by prescribed orphan drugs from 2011 to 2024. During 2018, orphan drugs revenues increased by 11.1 percent. Orphan drugs are used to target rare diseases or disorders, which in the United States is defined as less than 200,000 patients. The development of orphan drugs are currently incentivized in the United States through the Orphan Drug Act of 1983.
Global prescription orphan drug annual growth in revenues from 2011 to 2024
Products that have orphan and non-orphan drug
designations and are expected to generate less than 50% of their sales in 2018 and 2024 from
their orphan-designated indication/s, are excluded from this analysis. This has led to the exclusion
of therapies such as Avastin, Opdivo, Enbrel, Herceptin, Humira and Remicade.
* From 2019 on projected.
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