Top pharma companies worldwide by number of originated drugs 2022

As of beginning of 2022, Swiss company Novartis had 129 originated drugs, making it the company with the highest number of originated drug worldwide that year.

Top pharma companies

In 2020, AbbVie was the pharmaceutical corporation that generated the highest revenue within the United States, namely over 27 billion U.S. dollars. Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb stood in second and third, earning over 26 billion U.S. dollars each within the country that year.

Generics

Between 2017 and 2018, Teva was the top generic drug manufacturing company in the United States in terms of unbranded generics revenue. During this period, the company generated close to six and a half billion U.S. dollars in revenue. Sandoz stood in third place with almost four billion U.S. dollars. While the proportion of branded drugs versus generic drug prescriptions dispensed was much more balanced in 2005, over 85 percent of prescriptions were for unbranded generics in 2018. That year, only about ten percent of prescriptions were for brand-name drugs.