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Pakistan
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o Officially Name Islamic Republic of Pakistan
o Capital Islamabad
o National languages Urdu
o Currency Pakistani rupee (₨) (PKR)
o Provinces : 4
Area: 796,095 sq km
Location:
Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between
India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the
west and China in the north
Time difference: UTC+5
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Pakistan
• Population:
199,085,847 (July 2015 est.)
• Age structure:
0-14 years: 32.65% (male 33,396,847/female 31,611,641)
15-24 years: 21.44% (male 22,016,207/female 20,673,562)
25-54 years: 36.28% (male 37,526,930/female 34,701,271)
55-64 years: 5.28% (male 5,254,347/female 5,253,526)
65 years and over: 4.35% (male 4,036,727/female 4,614,789) (2015 est.)
• Population growth rate:
1.46% (2015 est.)
• Death rate:
6.49 deaths /1,000 population (2015 est.)
• Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 67.39 years
male: 65.47 years
female: 69.4 years (2015 est.)
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Pakistan
Economy
• GDP (official exchange rate): $247.8 billion (2015 est.)
• GDP - real growth rate: 4% (2014 est.)
• GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,700 (2014 est.)
• Industrial production growth rate: 4.5% (2014 est.)
• Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.6% (2014 est.)
• Exports: $24.8 billion (2014 est.)
• Budget:
revenues: $38.75 billion
expenditures: $53.11 billion (2015 est.)
• Exchange rates: Pakistani rupees (PKR) per US dollar -105 (FY2015
est.)
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Pakistan
Healthcare
• Health expenditures:
2.8% of GDP (2013)
• Physicians density:
0.83 physicians/1,000 population (2010)
• Hospital bed density:
0.6 beds/1,000 population (2012)
• Major infectious diseases:
• degree of risk: high
• food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and
typhoid fever
• vector borne diseases: dengue fever and malaria
• animal contact disease: rabies
• note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this
country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible
among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2013)
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Healthcare System Structure
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ENTIRE COUNTRY
Total Hospitals 1217
Dispensaries 5377
Maternity & Child Welfare Centers 697
Beds in hospitals & dispensaries etc. 1,01,960
Total Doctors 151248
Total Dentist 15514
Total Surgeons 34187
Total Nurses 69,313
Retail Pharmacy Market 65,000
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Pakistan Pharmaceutical Overview
• Total Registered Pharmaceutical in Pakistan approximately 660
• Multinational Pharmaceutical Company 18
• National Pharmaceutical Company 641
• Estimated size of the Pharmaceutical market is US$ 2.6 Billion (IMS Q4,
2015)
• Projected Growth of Market is 13.06% in 2016
• 1% of profit of All Registered Pharmaceutical to MOH for R&D Expenditure
• This again makes the country the region's 7th most attractive market in
Asia.
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4 Year Total Pharmaceutical Market
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Therapeutic Class Value in Pkr
Growth
(%)
2015 275,522,458,199 12.67
2014 244,542,382,117 11.47
2013 219,376,114,009 15.47
2012 189,992,366,778 14.83
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The Product
• The Product Pharmaceutical products are used in the treatment of
diseases hence called “Drug”
• Every operation pertaining to the drugs including import, manufacturing &
distribution is governed by “The Drugs Act 1976”.
• The Product Drugs are manufactured under the strict quality standards
called GMP (good manufacturing practices)
• No product can be marketed/distributed unless registered by the Ministry
of Health, Pakistan
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The Price
The key factor affecting the price of drugs include but not limited to
• uniqueness (availability) of the product
• the country from where final dosage form or the main raw
materials are imported
• process steps involved in manufacturing
• size of production (economies of scale)
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The Price
• Price structure Cost of raw/packaging materials
• Cost of conversion
• Cost of distribution
• Distributor margin
• Retailer margin
• Cost of promotion
• The cost of drugs is higher than the profits associated with them
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Major Trading Partners of Pakistan in Pharmaceutical
Products
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Export
partners
Exported
value 2013
(Million US
$)
Percentage
share in
Pakistan’s
pharmaceut
ical exports
Import
partners
Imported
value 2012
(Million
US $)
Percentage
share in
Pakistan’s
pharmaceut
ical imports
Afghanistan 42.52 25.1 Denmark 191.97 28.5
Sri Lanka 17.49 10.3 Switzerland 93.67 13.9
Viet Nam 13.85 8.2 Germany 51.77 7.7
Philippines 11.94 7.0 Belgium 46.62 6.9
Lithuania 8.90 5.3 Italy 36.31 5.4
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References
• Pakistan Demography Profile from World fact book
• All data related to therapeutic class ,Top Pharmaceutical, Top Brands, Top
Molecules (IMS Q4 2015).
• Healthcare System Structure data obtained from
– PMDC website
– i) Health Division. ii) Provincial Health Directorates.
• Trading Partners data from India-Pakistan Trade: A Case Study of the
Pharmaceutical Sector by Vaqar Ahmed ,Samavia Batool December 2014
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