Chemicals and materials

China is the world’s second largest pharmaceutical market after the US and the largest producer and exporter of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) globally. Since it is the world’s most populous country, with a large share of ageing ...

In the first quarter of 2019, China’s pharmaceutical and medicine production declined by 7.2% y/y to 720,000 tonnes, while the sales of pharmaceuticals went down by 3.4% y/y to 700,460 tonnes. The decline in output can be linked to the ...

The changing demographic and disease profiles of Hungary were the drivers of the expansion of health expenditure in recent years. As a result, the country spent 7.4% of its GDP on healthcare in 2016, still below the EU average. The government ...

Turkey’s healthcare system has been fully reformed under the 2003-2013 Health Transformation Programme (HTP), which helped expand the coverage and quality of health services across the country. Health insurance coverage reached 98.4% of the ...

The economy’s return to growth provided a strong impetus to the Russian healthcare sector in 2017. Healthcare expenditure grew by a robust 22% y/y, when measured in US dollar terms, the first increase in many years. However, at USD 92bn in 2017 ...

With 1.4bn population each as of 2017, India and China are the most numerous countries out of the six forming the focus of this report. However, the two countries differ widely in terms of per capita GDP, with that of China being more than twice that ...

The chemicals sector is one of the key pillars of the Chinese economy. It comprises five major subsectors – agricultural chemicals, basic chemicals, synthetic materials, coating and dyestuff, and special purpose chemicals. Over the past two ...

Brazil is the world’s second largest producer of ethanol and biodiesel, and a pioneer in developing biofuels as an economically viable alternative to fossil fuels. The main biofuels in the country are sugarcane ethanol – comprising ...

The combined production value of the Polish chemical sector, which for the purposes of this report shall consist of the chemicals, and the rubber and plastics subsectors, stood at PLN 158.5bn in 2017, up 11.95% y/y. The share of the sector’s ...

Peru is a comparatively small pharmaceutical market in Latin America (ranking eighth in terms of sales volume in 2017), with a relatively young and growing population. However, public health spending is expanding at a rapid pace, particularly in ...