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Top 50 pharmaceutical companies - Rx sales and R&D spending 2017

Top 50 global pharmaceutical companies by prescription sales and R&D spending in 2017 (Figures expressed in billions of U.S. dollars, unless otherwise specified)

The data shows the world's leading pharmaceutical companies in 2017 based on prescription sales and R&D spending. During that year, Pfizer's Rx sales were approx. 45.36 billion dollars, while R&D spending was approx. 7.63 billion dollars. Thus, in that year Pfizer was the biggest pharmaceutical company based on pure pharma revenue worldwide.

Pfizer (U.S.) 45.36 7.63
Novartis (Switzerland) 41.88 7.82
Roche (Switzerland) 41.73 9.18
Merck & Co. (U.S.) 35.36 7.56
Johnson & Johnson (USA) 34.4 8.36
Sanofi (France) 34.08 6.18
GlaxoSmithKline (UK) 28.67 4.98
AbbVie (U.S.) 27.74 4.83
Gilead Sciences (U.S.) 25.66 4.98
Amgen (U.S.) 21.8 3.48
AstraZeneca (UK) 19.78 5.41
Bristol-Myers Squibb (U.S.) 18.26 4.82
Eli Lilly (U.S.) 18.53 4.97
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Israel) 18.26 1.85
Bayer (Germany) 17.54 3.26
Novo Nordisk (Denmark) 16.97 2.13
Allergan (U.S.) 14.91 1.6
Shire (Ireland) 14.45 1.57
Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany) 14.26 3.07
Takeda (Japan) 13.58 2.94
Celgene (U.S.) 12.93 3.02
Mylan (U.S.) 11.45 0.66
Astellas Pharma (Japan) 10.88 1.99
Biogen (U.S.) 10.36 2.25
CSL (Australia) 7.52 0.63
Daiichi Sankyo (Japan) 7.36 2.13
Merck KGaA (Germany) 6.88 1.84
Otsuka Holdings (Japan) 5.32 1.48
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (Canada) 5.05 0.36
UCB (Belgium) 4.63 1.2
Les Laboratoires Servier (France) 4.57 1.15
Eisai (Japan) 4.36 1.26
Abbott Laboratories (U.S.) 4.29 0.16
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (India) 4.15 0.32
Fresenius (Germany) 4.07 0.43
Grifols (Spain) 3.85 0.33
Regeneron (U.S.) 3.72 2.08
Chugai Pharmaceutical (Japan) 3.67 0.79
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (U.S.) 3.55 0.81
Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma (Japan) 3.53 0.79
Endo International (Ireland) 3.47 0.16
Mallinckrodt (Ireland) 3.14 0.34
Menarini (Italy) 3.07
Aspen Pharmacare (South Africa) 2.59
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma (Japan) 2.58 0.71
Ono Pharmaceutical (Japan) 2.36 0.62
STADA Arzneimittel (Germany) 2.35 0.08
Lupin (India) 2.34 0.31
Kyowa Hakko Kirin (Japan) 2.27 0.44
Ferring Pharmaceuticals (U.S.) 2.24 0.33

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