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Bio Tech Industry Statistics

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01 Industry overview

The bio tech industry at a glance

Biotechnology is expanding rapidly, with global market estimates of approximately $1.6 trillion in 2024 and U.S. bioscience output reaching $3.19 trillion in 2025.

$1.6T[92]
Global market, 2024
$232B[13]
Biotech revenue, 2025
2.31M[29]
U.S. direct jobs, 2025
46[94]
FDA novel drugs, 2025
Market size
The OECD reported that the global biotechnology market was worth approximately $1.6 trillion in 2024. EY reported $232 billion in revenue for publicly tracked biotech companies in 2025, reflecting a narrower commercial-company measure than the broader global market estimate.[92][13]
Forecast & CAGR
Grand View Research projects the global biotechnology market to reach $3.88 trillion by 2030, implying a 13.96% CAGR from 2024 to 2030. Its estimate places the 2024 market at $1.76 trillion.[95]
Market share & regions
The OECD reported that the United States represented about 35% of the global biotechnology market in 2025, compared with 31% for Europe and approximately 5% for China. The United States also attracted $56.8 billion in biotechnology venture capital in 2023, versus $11.5 billion in Europe and $20.6 billion in China.[92]
Segmentation
Biotechnology is commonly segmented into red biotechnology for healthcare, green biotechnology for agriculture and environmental applications, and white or industrial biotechnology for manufacturing and biobased products. In the broader U.S. bioscience economy, BIO identifies health, food and agriculture, and industrial biobased products as distinct activity groups; its 2025 estimate for food, agriculture and manufacturing biotechnology was $237 billion in direct economic value.[92][29]
Key players & concentration
The commercial sector is concentrated among a relatively small group of high-revenue companies: EY reported that 72 biotech companies generated more than $500 million in sales in 2025. Financing was also concentrated, with transactions valued at $5 billion or more accounting for 59% of biotech deal spending in 2025, compared with a five-year average of 51%.[13]
Trends, drivers & challenges
Growth is being supported by biologics, cell and gene therapies, personalized medicine, AI-enabled discovery and biomanufacturing. At the same time, the industry faces patent expiries, pricing pressure, supply-chain uncertainty and tighter financing conditions; U.S. biotech venture rounds fell 25.2% year over year to 237 in 2025, while transaction value declined 8.19% to $13.3 billion.[13][96]
M&A
Biopharma M&A rebounded strongly in 2025: Alvarez & Marsal reported more than $143.4 billion in year-to-date biopharma M&A deal value, compared with $79.1 billion for full-year 2024. EY reported that global life-sciences M&A activity increased 81% in 2025 to $240 billion, although the broader figure includes life-sciences transactions beyond biotechnology.[97][13]
Regulation
In 2025, the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research approved 46 novel drugs, including 12 biologics; 18 biosimilars were also approved. The agency reported that 33 of the 46 novel approvals used at least one expedited development or review program, while 23 received orphan-drug designation.[94]
Latest news
On October 28, 2026, BIO and the Council of State Bioscience Associations reported that the U.S. bioscience industry generated $3.19 trillion in total economic output in 2025, directly employed 2.31 million people and operated more than 156,000 business establishments.[29]
report visual · Projection

Venture capital investment received by U.S.-headquartered firms developing and producing biotechnology products and services

Venture capital investment received by U.S.-headquartered firms developing and producing biotechnology products and services fell from $25.0B in 2019 to $17.3B in 2024.

$25B
Start
-7.14%
CAGR · 5y
$17.3B
Projected
20192024
source-verifiedncses.nsf.gov2024

03 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

AI in the bio tech industry

  • 37% of biotech AI users reported measurable improvements in scientific outcomes such as hit rates, novel discoveries or model accuracy.[1]
  • 43% of companies in Bavaria’s biotechnology cluster reported that they did not currently use AI in 2024.[2]
  • 65% of pharma and biotech respondents identified data analytics and data science as a top AI area in 2025.[3]
  • 69% of pharma and biotech respondents identified generative AI and large language models as a top AI workload in 2025.[3]
  • 74% of pharma and biotech respondents were actively using AI in 2025, according to a global healthcare and life-sciences survey.[3]
  • 26% of biotech organizations had adopted AI co-scientists or agents, while 32% planned adoption within one to two years.[1]

Automation in the bio tech industry

  • 55% of biotech AI users rated data challenges as a major factor in AI pilot failure or underperformance.[1]
  • 37% of biotech organizations planned to adopt multimodal AI systems within one to two years, supporting more automated R&D workflows.[1]
  • 38% of biotech organizations planned to adopt manufacturing and supply-chain AI within one to two years.[1]
  • 25% of biotech users of scientific models already reported lower costs, while 44% expected cost reductions within one to two years.[1]
  • 50% of biotech AI users rated intellectual-property, security and compliance issues as major factors in AI pilot failure or underperformance.[1]
  • 56% of biotech AI users expected lower costs within one to two years as automation and agentic workflows scale.[1]

Digital Transformation in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • 45% of pharmaceutical companies surveyed were pursuing digitalization as an innovation or technology in 2024.[4]
  • 35% of clinical-research organizations surveyed were piloting digital technologies in 2024, up from 29% in 2019.[5]
  • 13% of clinical-research organizations surveyed reported a comprehensive AI-driven digital programme in 2024.[5]
  • 15.1% of global pharmaceutical-industry survey respondents reported that Pharma 4.0 digital transformation had not started in 2023.[6]
  • 58.1% of global pharmaceutical-industry survey respondents were in the pilots or systematic-ongoing-actions stages of Pharma 4.0 adoption in 2023.[6]

Technology Adoption in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • 70% of global biopharma respondents had adopted an R&D data platform in 2023.[7]
  • 55% of biopharma AI adopters reported using AI in process development in 2024.[8]
  • 37% of small biopharma respondents reported that more than 60% of their R&D laboratory instruments had automated data capture in 2024.[9]
  • 63% of global biopharma respondents had adopted robotics and automation in 2023.[7]
  • 59% of global biopharma respondents had adopted artificial intelligence or machine learning in 2023.[7]

Cloud Computing in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • 23% of small biopharma respondents had adopted cloud-based scientific software or SaaS in 2024.[8]
  • 49% of biopharma survey respondents reported using cloud computing to facilitate day-to-day work in 2021.[10]
  • 77% of life-sciences commercial IT leaders reported investing primarily in cloud infrastructure in 2024.[11]
  • 18% of global biopharma respondents had adopted cloud-based scientific software or SaaS in 2023.[7]
  • 17% of large biopharma respondents had adopted cloud-based scientific software or SaaS in 2024.[8]

Big Data in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • 49% of clinical-research survey respondents reported using AI and big-data analytics in drug development in 2024.[5]
  • 68% of pharmaceutical companies surveyed planned to use advanced analytics in 2024.[12]
  • 43% of small and midsize pharmaceutical companies surveyed were pursuing big data and analytics in 2024.[4]

04 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Business intelligence in the bio tech industry

  • 96% of surveyed biopharma companies considered real-world data and evidence essential to organizational strategy.[10]
  • 49% of surveyed biopharma companies used cloud computing in day-to-day operations.[10]
  • 80% of surveyed biopharma executives expected generative AI to significantly affect real-world-evidence generation within one year.[10]
  • 56% of life sciences survey respondents said their companies were prioritizing real-world evidence and multimodal capabilities.[10]
  • 41% of surveyed U.S. life sciences CIOs reported using a decentralized AI-governance model.[13]
  • 21% of respondents who prioritized real-world evidence and multimodal capabilities considered it a very important priority.[10]

Data analytics in the bio tech industry

  • 80% of pharma and biotech respondents identified data analytics and data science as an AI focus area in 2025.[3]
  • 74% of pharma and biotech respondents reported actively using AI in 2025.[3]
  • 40% of biotechnology companies in Bavaria identified a lack of high-quality data as a challenge to AI integration.[2]
  • 27% of biotechnology companies in Bavaria cited big-data analysis and pattern recognition as an AI application.[2]
  • 23% of biotechnology companies in Bavaria cited research and development of new therapies as an AI application.[2]
  • 53% of pharma and biotech respondents identified agentic AI as an AI focus area in 2025.[3]

Data Quality in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across 116 commercial biopharma leaders in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, 81% identified data quality as their top data issue for the next 12 months in 2025.[14]
  • Across 500 pharmaceutical and biotechnology executives globally, 44% said their organization was prepared on data quality and completeness in 2025.[15]
  • Across 116 commercial biopharma leaders in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, 73% reported significant data quality issues in 2025.[14]
  • Across 125 senior U.S. life-sciences leaders, 81% said accuracy and confidence in data were critical components of AI success in biopharma in 2026.[14]
  • Across 116 commercial biopharma leaders in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, 96% said their data was not well-structured or AI-ready for scaling in 2025.[14]

Data Governance in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across 500 pharmaceutical and biotechnology executives globally, 54% said their organization was prepared on data governance in 2025.[15]
  • Across 200 global life-sciences R&D respondents, 49% called for more data-governance frameworks to make data FAIR at scale in 2024.[16]
  • Across 11 pharmaceutical regulatory organizations, 9% reported a comprehensive approach to onboarding standards such as IDMP and XEVMPD, with regular source qualification, connected systems and data cleaning in 2023.[17]
  • Across 200 global life-sciences R&D respondents, 51% identified maintenance and management of data standards and ontologies as a key FAIR-data need in 2024.[16]
  • Across 200 global life-sciences R&D respondents, 46% called for templates for standardization and metadata to make data FAIR at scale in 2024.[16]

KPIs in the bio tech industry

  • One platform update was released approximately every three weeks by SOPHiA GENETICS in 2024.[18]
  • 352,000 analyses were performed on the SOPHiA DDM Platform in fiscal 2024.[19]
  • 4% was SOPHiA GENETICS’ annualized revenue churn rate across its customer base in 2024.[20]
  • 40% was SOPHiA DDM analysis-volume growth in Asia-Pacific during fiscal 2024.[19]
  • 11% was the year-over-year growth in SOPHiA DDM analysis volume in fiscal 2024.[19]
  • 33% was SOPHiA DDM analysis-volume growth in North America during fiscal 2024.[19]

05 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Growth in the bio tech industry

  • 9.7% was AstraZeneca’s 2024 average revenue growth in established markets.[21]
  • 72 biotechnology companies generated more than $500 million in sales in 2025.[13]
  • 9.7% was AstraZeneca’s 2024 revenue growth in emerging markets.[21]
  • $232 billion was biotechnology-industry revenue in 2025, according to EY’s global public-company analysis.[13]
  • $205.4 billion was the combined 2024 revenue of U.S. and European public biotechnology companies, up 6.8% year over year.[13]
  • $1.16 billion was Bio-Techne’s net sales for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024.[22]

Differentiation in the bio tech industry

  • 60% of Bio-Rad’s 2024 consolidated net sales came from its Clinical Diagnostics segment.[18]
  • 40% of Bio-Rad’s 2024 consolidated net sales came from its Life Science segment.[18]
  • $1.16 billion was Bio-Techne’s 2024 net sales across its research and diagnostic product businesses.[22]

Mergers and acquisitions in the bio tech industry

  • 288 life-sciences mergers and acquisitions were recorded in 2023.[23]
  • $16.5 billion was the value of Novo Holdings’ acquisition of Catalent completed in December 2024.[24]
  • $4.9 billion was the value of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ 2024 acquisition of Alpine Immune Sciences.[25]
  • 15 public and private acquisitions valued above $1 billion occurred in biopharma during 2024.[26]
  • 127 life-sciences mergers and acquisitions were recorded in 2024, with aggregate value of $105.954 billion.[23]
  • $209.730 billion was the aggregate value of life-sciences mergers and acquisitions in 2023.[23]

Strategic partnerships in the bio tech industry

  • $2.89 billion was the potential value of Novartis’s 2024 expanded peptide-discovery collaboration with PeptiDream.[27]
  • $3 billion was the potential value of Novartis’s 2024 partnership with Dren Bio.[28]
  • $180 billion was the total value of biotech deals involving emerging companies in 2022, including upfront and milestone payments.[29]
  • $192 billion was the total value of biotech deals involving emerging companies in 2024, including upfront and milestone payments.[29]
  • $31 billion was the potential combined value of the ten largest biopharma partnership deals reported in 2024.[28]
  • $154 billion was the total value of biotech deals involving emerging companies in 2019, including upfront and milestone payments.[29]

06 Statistics

People & Workforce

Hiring in the bio tech industry

  • 7.9% of surveyed U.S. life-sciences companies rated research-scientist or broader R&D hiring very difficult in 2025.[30]
  • 6.8% of surveyed U.S. life-sciences companies rated product- or process-development engineering hiring very difficult in 2025.[30]
  • 52,422 unique U.S. life-sciences job postings were published in an average month during 2023–2024.[30]
  • 1.9% of all U.S. job postings were life-sciences postings in 2024.[30]
  • 87% of surveyed U.S. life-sciences companies hired employees at some level during 2023–2025.[30]

Employee retention in the bio tech industry

  • 5.2% was the employee-separation rate among participating Massachusetts biotechnology companies in 2023–2024.[31]
  • 6.9% was Merck’s employee-turnover rate in 2024, down from 7.8% in 2023.[32]
  • 0.9 percentage points was the reduction in Merck’s employee-turnover rate between 2023 and 2024.[32]
  • 10.7 separations per 100 employees was the turnover rate among large Massachusetts biotechnology companies with 250 or more employees in 2023–2024.[31]

Remote Work in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. life sciences companies, 65.9% reported implementing, expanding, or considering remote-work options for at least some employees in 2023.[33]
  • Across U.S. chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers, 5.7% of positions were fully remote in the 2024 hiring outlook survey.[34]
  • Among life-sciences companies with remote-work options, 50.0% cited competition with technology and other industries as a reason for their policy in 2023.[33]
  • Among privately held life-sciences companies surveyed, 21.7% had some portion of their workforce fully remote in 2025.[35]

Hybrid Work in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers, 44.5% of positions were fully hybrid in the 2024 hiring outlook survey.[34]
  • Among life-sciences CEOs, 83% expected corporate employees whose roles were traditionally office-based to work in a hybrid environment three years after the 2024 survey.[36]
  • Among surveyed life-sciences employers in the BioHealth Capital Region, 60% expected at least a hybrid workforce after the pandemic in 2021.[37]
  • Among surveyed life-sciences companies in the MassBio Human Resources Roundtable, 97% planned to implement hybrid work models for the long term in 2022.[38]

Upskilling in the bio tech industry

  • 2.9 million life-sciences job postings were analyzed to identify changing skills and workforce trends in the 2025 report.[39]
  • 11 additional U.S. jobs are generated by every job in the industrial bioeconomy, according to the 2025 life-sciences workforce report.[30]
  • 4 specialized digital skills—data management, data governance, artificial intelligence and data science—were among the leading skill areas rising in life-sciences job postings from 2021 to 2024.[30]
  • 3 major drivers of incumbent-worker upskilling identified by life-sciences executives were regulatory change, manufacturing automation and digital integration.[30]
  • 500+ life-sciences companies contributed survey responses to the 2025 national workforce-trends report.[39]

Employee Engagement in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • At Amneal Pharmaceuticals, global employee engagement reached 88% in the company’s 2024 reporting year.[40]
  • Across the Culture Amp pharmaceuticals benchmark, 18% of employees were thinking of or actively seeking another job in July 2026.[41]
  • Across the Culture Amp pharmaceuticals benchmark, 91% of employees agreed they understood how their work contributed to company goals in July 2026.[41]
  • Across the Culture Amp pharmaceuticals benchmark, 17% of employees disagreed that they had seen positive changes based on recent employee survey results in July 2026.[41]

Change Management in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across 612 pharmaceutical-company respondents, clinical-trial innovations took an average of 69 months from planning to portfolio-wide implementation, excluding decentralized-trial adoption during COVID-19.[42]
  • Among pharmaceutical and biotechnology executives surveyed, 67% said their companies were using mergers and acquisitions to access talent or innovation in 2023.[43]
  • Among 125 pharmaceutical and biotechnology executives surveyed, 68% said their organizations were actively increasing investments in change management in 2023.[43]
  • Among pharmaceutical and biotechnology executives surveyed, 69% felt their organizations were well equipped to handle growing pressures in 2023.[43]

07 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Customer experience in the bio tech industry

  • 17.9 was the 2024 life-science industry average for service provided, up from 16.8 in 2023.[44]
  • 61% of healthcare professionals said excellent pharmaceutical customer experience changed their view of the provider for the better in 2021.[45]
  • 6 times as many healthcare professionals requested follow-up from a pharmaceutical company after positive interactions as after poor interactions in 2021.[45]
  • 67% of healthcare professionals said excellent pharmaceutical customer experience improved their belief that the company understood challenges facing them and their patients in 2021.[45]
  • 15.6 was the 2024 overall customer-experience score among life-science suppliers, up from 15.5 in 2023, according to BioInformatics.[44]

Customer acquisition in the bio tech industry

  • 2.98 percentage points was the year-over-year increase in life-sciences conversion to attendance for curated content experiences in 2021.[46]
  • 33.87 percentage points was the year-over-year increase in life-sciences conversion to attendance for personalized content experiences in 2021.[46]
  • 5.5 times more closed deals were associated with account-based marketing than differentiated marketing in a 2025 life-sciences marketing study.[47]

Customer loyalty in the bio tech industry

  • 61% of healthcare professionals said excellent pharmaceutical customer experience improved their view of the company in 2021, an indicator of stronger loyalty and preference.[45]
  • 36.7 was the 2024 life-science industry average for satisfaction and loyalty, down from 37.3 in 2023.[44]

Lead generation in the bio tech industry

  • 52.75 minutes was the average time life-sciences audiences spent attending webinars in 2021.[46]
  • 123.72% was the year-over-year increase in life-sciences audience CTA engagement after digital experiences in 2021.[46]
  • 17.74 questions per experience were submitted by life-sciences audiences during digital experiences in 2021.[46]

08 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Marketing in the bio tech industry

  • 64% of life-sciences marketing leaders said technology investments were prioritized according to revenue impact in 2024.[48]
  • 59% of life-sciences marketing leaders said marketing was measured by direct impact on revenue in 2024.[48]
  • 87% of life-sciences marketing leaders said marketing was being asked to become more efficient in 2024.[48]
  • 72% of life-sciences marketing leaders said marketing was expected to contribute directly to sales or revenue in 2024.[48]

Digital marketing in the bio tech industry

  • 192.31% was the year-over-year increase in life-sciences audience engagement during personalized digital experiences in 2021.[46]
  • 7.87% was the year-over-year increase in life-sciences audience engagement actions during digital experiences in 2021.[46]
  • 35% of life-sciences companies planned to increase digital-strategy headcount and program initiatives in 2025.[47]

Influencer Marketing in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • 44% of physicians in Europe, APAC and North America said healthcare influencer or KOL content had changed their perception of a medication in 2024.[49]
  • 10% of healthcare and pharmaceutical marketers said they did not invest in creator or influencer marketing in 2026, globally.[50]
  • 50% of physicians in Europe, APAC and North America said healthcare influencer or KOL content had changed their prescribing choices in 2024.[49]
  • 29% of healthcare and pharmaceutical marketers reported dedicated but flat budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026, globally.[50]
  • 4.5% of high-engagement prescription-drug promotion posts across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube came from pharmaceutical companies in the United States in 2025.[51]

09 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Process optimization in the bio tech industry

  • 55% of biopharma AI adopters had implemented AI in process development in 2024, including cell-line development, bioprocessing, formulation design and digital twins.[8]
  • 67% of large biopharma companies had adopted AI or machine learning in 2024, compared with 23% of small biopharma companies.[8]
  • 23% of small biopharma companies and 17% of large biopharma companies had adopted cloud-based scientific software or SaaS in 2024.[8]
  • 10% of biologics drug-substance plants reported using advanced analytics for regular improvement actions or real-time optimization during 2021–2024.[52]

Operational efficiency in the bio tech industry

  • 25% of large biopharma respondents reported foundational AI readiness in 2024, compared with 9% of small biopharma respondents.[8]
  • 35% of life-sciences manufacturers applied data to supply or demand planning in 2025.[53]
  • 46% of large biopharma companies said they could attract and hire skilled AI talent in 2024, compared with 17% of small companies.[8]
  • 38% of life-sciences manufacturers used manufacturing data for AI, applied AI, generative AI or machine learning in 2025.[53]
  • 20 biologics drug-substance manufacturing plants were included in the POBOS digital-maturity assessment covering 2021–2024.[52]

Quality management in the bio tech industry

  • 18% of therapeutics companies reported no newly achieved quality standard in 2024.[54]
  • 16% of therapeutics companies planned to align with the FDA Quality Management Maturity program in 2024.[54]
  • 27% of therapeutics companies reported achieved alignment with ICH Q guidelines in 2024.[54]
  • 5% of therapeutics companies planned to meet ICH Q best-practice targets in 2024.[54]
  • 14% of therapeutics companies planned to achieve GMP-related quality targets in 2024.[54]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector (sector benchmark)

  • 67% of global biotech and pharma companies outsourced pharmacovigilance operations in 2024, according to an IQVIA industry report.[25]
  • 12% of total API volume used in the United States was produced domestically in 2024, with most supply coming from India and the European Union.[55]
  • 40% of surveyed pharma and biotech CDMO decision-makers identified small-molecule API as the most outsourced product in July 2024.[56]
  • 54% of global biotech and pharma companies outsourced regulatory activities in 2024, according to an IQVIA industry report.[25]
  • 41% of surveyed pharmaceutical and biotech R&D leaders increased their use of functional-service-provider outsourcing versus two years earlier in 2023.[4]

10 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Pricing strategy in the bio tech industry

  • Germany’s trimmed-mean drug prices fell 30.9% three years after launch in the study of launches through 2022.[51]
  • U.S. prices for biologic products were 4.7 times prices in other high-income countries in 2022.[57]
  • U.S. prices for small-molecule drugs were 6.0 times prices in other high-income countries in 2022.[57]
  • Annual U.S. net launch prices increased 33% per year for drugs launched during 2022–2024, after adjustment for drug characteristics.[58]
  • Germany’s trimmed-mean drug prices fell 45.2% ten years after launch in the study of launches through 2022.[51]

Cost reduction in the bio tech industry

  • 14.8% of biomanufacturing respondents selected cost reduction as the single most needed improvement in 2025.[59]
  • 55% of biopharma AI adopters used AI in process development in 2024, including bioprocess and formulation design.[8]
  • 10% of biologics drug-substance plants used advanced analytics for regular improvement actions or real-time optimization during 2021–2024.[52]
  • Downstream process intensification using multi-column chromatography produced the greatest modeled impact on biopharmaceutical manufacturing cost and facility footprint in 2024 research.[60]

Profitability in the bio tech industry

  • Biopharmaceutical companies generated a 10.3% return on capital during 2022–2024.[61]
  • Biotech companies allocated nearly 44% of revenue to research and development during 2022–2024.[61]
  • Novo Nordisk reported a 43.8% operating margin in 2024 among the 30 largest life-sciences companies.[13]
  • Novartis reported a 28.0% operating margin in 2024 among the 30 largest life-sciences companies.[13]
  • Moderna reported a negative 145.2% net margin for fiscal 2025 in a compilation of U.S.-listed biotechnology-company filings.[62]

Financial planning in the bio tech industry

  • Biotech and pharma venture-capital funding totaled $49.3 billion in 2022.[63]
  • Biotech and pharma venture-capital funding totaled $38.7 billion in 2024.[63]
  • 36% of U.S.-listed biotech companies had less than one year of cash on hand at the end of 2023.[64]
  • Median cash runway for emerging biotech companies was 25.0 months at the end of 2024.[63]
  • Biotech and pharma venture-capital funding totaled $51.0 billion in 2020.[63]

11 Statistics

Product & Service

Product development in the bio tech industry

  • $844.6 billion was the estimated capitalized average cost of developing a new drug before post-approval studies, including failures.[65]
  • 43% of small and mid-sized biopharma companies were pursuing big data and analytics as a drug-development technology.[4]
  • 68% of estimated new-drug development costs were associated with clinical-stage development, including Phases I, II and III.[65]
  • 6.7% was the likelihood that a drug entering Phase I would ultimately gain approval during the 2014–2023 period.[66]
  • 35% of biotechnology companies publicly disclosed the number of projects in preclinical, clinical and launch stages.[67]

Product lifecycle in the bio tech industry

  • 29.7% of real-world-evidence studies supporting FDA decisions from 2016–2024 involved biologics.[68]
  • 12.0% was the increase in Phase II development time over the five years through 2024.[10]
  • 44% of biologic approvals in 2024 used outsourced finished-dose manufacturing.[69]
  • 24% of estimated average new-drug development costs were associated with post-approval activities, including Phase IV studies.[65]
  • 97.4% of postmarketing requirements in the analyzed FDA dataset were issued under FDAAA authority.[68]

After-sales in the bio tech industry

  • 5,500 repairs were completed annually by Cytiva’s Asia-Pacific field-support team.[70]
  • More than 5,000 instruments were covered by Cytiva maintenance contracts in Asia-Pacific.[70]
  • 92% was Cytiva’s first-time-fix rate for Asia-Pacific service work.[70]
  • 67% of Cytiva Asia-Pacific contract and warranty calls were answered within one day.[70]
  • 35% of Cytiva Asia-Pacific repairs were resolved remotely.[70]

Value proposition in the bio tech industry

  • 92 new customers were signed by SOPHiA GENETICS during 2024.[19]
  • 67 was the NPS score reported for SOPHiA DDM in 2024.[71]
  • 104% was SOPHiA GENETICS’ net dollar retention rate in 2024.[71]
  • 30,000 new genomic profiles per month were being added to SOPHiA GENETICS’ analyzed data volume at the end of 2024.[18]
  • 810+ hospitals, laboratories and biopharma customers used SOPHiA GENETICS solutions globally at December 31, 2024.[18]

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Sustainability & Ethics

Sustainability in the bio tech industry

  • 61% of pharma and medical-technology companies in the UN Race to Zero had started a My Green Lab Certification program in 2024.[72]
  • 397 million tCO₂e were emitted by public and private biotech and pharmaceutical companies in 2023 across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 globally.[72]
  • 31% of 149 analyzed biotech and pharmaceutical companies had medium-term Scope 1 and 2 targets aligned with a 1.5°C pathway in 2024.[72]
  • 9% of 86 European biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies had climate targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative for fiscal year 2023.[73]
  • 68% of My Green Lab Certification programs operated at global scale among participating pharma and medical-technology companies in 2024.[72]

ESG in the bio tech industry

  • 25% of biotech and pharmaceutical companies had medium-term Scope 1 and 2 targets aligned with a 1.5°C pathway in the expanded 2024 dataset.[72]
  • More than half of the top-rated European biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies assessed by EthiFinance had fewer than 250 employees in 2024.[73]
  • 70% of 86 European biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies scored between 31 and 70 points on EthiFinance’s 0-to-100 ESG scale in 2024.[73]
  • 160 listed biotechnology companies were reviewed for sustainability-disclosure practices in Nossa Data’s FY2024 analysis.[74]
  • More than 80% of biotech and pharmaceutical emissions came from purchased goods and services in the industry assessment reported in 2024.[27]

Ethics in the bio tech industry

  • 29% of commercial genomics survey respondents worked in business development or strategy.[68]
  • Novo Nordisk identified children and elderly people as vulnerable populations receiving special ethical consideration in clinical research in 2024.[75]
  • Over two thirds of Novo Nordisk’s active phase 2 and 3 clinical trials included at least one decentralized-clinical-trial element in 2024.[75]
  • 22% of commercial genomics survey respondents worked in research and development roles.[68]
  • 3.5 was the highest mean concern level reported across 14 ethical issues by commercial genomics professionals in the survey.[68]

CSR in the bio tech industry

  • Biogen paid more than $2 billion in U.S. federal, state and local taxes from 2021 through 2024.[76]
  • 70% of Biogen’s research-and-development employees were based in the United States in 2025.[76]
  • Biogen employed more than 1,500 people and over 400 skilled contractors at its Wake County and Durham County campuses in North Carolina in 2025.[76]
  • 17 countries were represented in Biogen’s lupus clinical-trial patient population in its 2024 corporate-responsibility reporting.[77]
  • Approximately 95% of Biogen Foundation grants and employee-matching donations over the previous decade went to U.S. nonprofit organizations.[76]

Carbon footprint in the bio tech industry

  • The 25 largest biopharmaceutical companies reduced annual Scope 1 and 2 emissions by approximately 5.3% per year from 2015 through the period assessed in 2024.[27]
  • 80% of biotech and pharmaceutical respondents had established Scope 3 targets in the VCMI sector survey.[78]
  • Scope 3 emissions were 6.5 times Scope 1 and 2 emissions combined for private biotech and pharmaceutical companies in 2023.[72]
  • 840.56 tCO₂e was Greenyn Biotechnology’s total greenhouse-gas emissions in 2025 across the reported Taiwan facilities and logistics center.[79]
  • 259 million tCO₂e were emitted by publicly listed biotech and pharmaceutical companies in 2023 across Scopes 1, 2 and 3.[72]

14 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

Globalization in the bio tech industry

  • $99.5 million was Bio-Techne’s 2024 revenue from Greater China.[22]
  • 14% of biotechnology greenfield foreign direct investment remained within the investor’s region during 2014–2024.[92]
  • $25 billion was announced by U.S.-based companies in biotechnology greenfield investment during 2014–2024.[92]
  • $241.4 million was Bio-Techne’s 2024 revenue from EMEA excluding the United Kingdom.[22]
  • 31% of global greenfield biotechnology foreign direct investment came from East Asia and the Pacific during 2014–2024.[92]

Stakeholder management in the bio tech industry

  • 83% of surveyed U.S. patient groups reported receiving financial support from pharmaceutical companies in 2024.[93]
  • 28% of surveyed U.S. patient groups reported receiving pharmaceutical help with patient tools in 2024.[93]
  • 37% of surveyed U.S. patient groups reported pharmaceutical assistance with networking and stakeholder relationships in 2024.[93]
  • 11% of surveyed U.S. patient groups reported receiving pharmaceutical help with research in 2024.[93]
  • 68% of surveyed U.S. patient groups reported pharmaceutical-company support for advocacy in 2024.[93]

Distribution channels in the bio tech industry

  • 41% of Bio-Rad’s 2024 consolidated net sales came from the United States.[18]
  • $657.7 million was Bio-Techne’s 2024 revenue from the United States.[22]
  • $73.9 million was Bio-Techne’s 2024 revenue from Asia-Pacific excluding Greater China.[22]
  • 59% of Bio-Rad’s 2024 consolidated net sales were generated internationally, using subsidiaries, distributors and agents.[18]
  • $50.0 million was Bio-Techne’s 2024 revenue from the United Kingdom.[22]
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