Saudi Arabia pharmaceutical drugs market growth is driven by various factors such as population growth, investment of companies in halal pharmaceuticals, decrease in fertility rates, and increase in life expectancy. The market is witnessing increasing investments by major market players and is also witnessing collaborations of several local and international companies with local generic manufacturers. Such factors are expected to facilitate robust, stable, and organic growth of Saudi Arabia pharmaceutical drugs market over the forecast period.
Market Dynamics
The major companies operating in Saudi Arabia pharmaceutical drugs market are focused on adopting strategies such as collaborations and partnerships for the development of drugs, R&D activities, and geographic expansions, this is expected to boost the Saudi Arabia pharmaceutical drugs market growth. For instance, in May 2016, GE Healthcare entered into a vaccine collaboration with the National Industrial Clusters Development Program (NICDP) under the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, SaudiVax, and King Saud University, to enable vaccine self-sufficiency and pandemic preparedness in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
Increasing prevalence of diabetes and cancer, in both male and female Arab population is expected to increase the growth of the Saudi Arabia pharmaceutical drugs market over the forecast period. For instance, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2019 report, Saudi Arabia recorded the second highest diabetes prevalence in the Middle East region while it recorded the seventh highest diabetes prevalence rate in the world. It is estimated that around 7 million of the population is diabetic and around 3 million people have pre-diabetes.
Moreover, according to the report of Globocan 2018 by WHO, the total number of new cases of cancer in both the sexes were 24,485 (across all ages) in Saudi Arabia in 2018. As per the same source, colorectal cancer was observed in the majority of males detected with cancer while breast cancer was observed in majority of women diagnosed with cancer.”
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