Human and veterinary pharmaceutical R&D spending U.S. 2017

This statistic shows the spending on human and veterinary pharmaceutical research and development in the United States in 2017. In total, expenditure on veterinary pharmaceutical research and development came to 457 million U.S. dollars that year.

Spending on human and veterinary pharmaceutical R&D in the U.S. in 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Human-use pharmaceuticals	Veterinary-use pharmaceuticals
Domestic*	55,512	243
Abroad**	15,430.4	214
Total	70,942.4	457

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Release date

June 2018

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2017

Special properties

PhRMA members

Supplementary notes

All figures include company-financed R&D only. Total values may be affected by rounding.
* Domestic R&D includes R&D expenditures within the United States by all PhRMA member companies.
** R&D abroad includes expenditures outside the United States by U.S.-owned PhRMA member companies and R&D conducted abroad by the U.S. divisions of foreign-owned PhRMA member companies. R&D performed abroad by the foreign divisions of foreign-owned PhRMA member companies are excluded.

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