Number of employees, Investments, Added value
Total employment in the pharmaceutical industry in Italy is 67,500 units (-2.9% compared to 2008), equal to 1.1% of total employment in industry and 0.3% of total employment in the country.
Gross fixed investments in 2009 grew by 0.9% (against the drop in the value of production, equal to -1.8%) and amounted to 1,110 million euro, 2.2% of industrial investments.
The added value in 2009 of the pharmaceutical industry is 6.5 billion euros, 2.2% of that of the total industry.
Comparison with other countries confirms that Italy is not only a large market (third in Europe) but also a large pharmaceutical producer, third in number of employees (67,500), after Germany and France (105,843 and 103,384 respectively) and ahead of the United Kingdom (66,520), Spain (40,385) and Switzerland (35,400).
Italy's weight on the total in Europe is 10.2% as regards the number of employees and 11.4% for the value of production. Europe is the area with the largest number of pharmaceutical employees, globally 633,000, compared to the USA with 293,000 and Japan with 159,000 employees
In 2009, total pharmaceutical exports (medicines, basic substances, other products) increased by 2.3% and amounted to 12.2 billion euros (9.3 billion for medicines, -0.5%). Imports t
