The data illustrates the Overall pharmaceutical company ranking of the Access to Medicine Index for developing countries in 2016. In that year, GlaxoSmithKline with 3.43 had the highest total score. The Access to Medicine Index is an independent initiative that ranks the world’s 20 biggest companies according to their efforts to make their products more available, affordable and accessible in developing countries, highlighting policy and practice that either facilitate or hinder access to medicine.
GlaxoSmithKline plc | 3.43 |
Johnson & Johnson | 2.93 |
Novartis AG | 2.87 |
Merck KGaA | 2.83 |
Merck & Co Inc. | 2.65 |
Sanofi | 2.58 |
AstraZeneca plc | 2.53 |
Gilead Sciences | 2.45 |
AbbVie Inc. | 2.39 |
Novo Nordisk A/S | 2.35 |
Eisai Co. Ltd. | 2.34 |
Bayer AG | 2.03 |
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. | 1.97 |
Pfizer Inc. | 1.87 |
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. | 1.77 |
Boehringer-Ingelheim GmbH | 1.7 |
Eli Lilly & Co. | 1.67 |
Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. | 1.61 |
Roche Holding Ltd. | 1.36 |
Astellas Pharma Inc. | 1.32 |