Official Statistics

Bioscience and health technology sector statistics 2019

Official statistics on the bioscience and health technology sector 2019

From:
Office for Life Sciences, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and Department of Health and Social Care
Published
20 August 2020
Last updated
15 September 2021 — See all updates

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Bioscience and health technology sector statistics 2019

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Bioscience and health technology sector 2019 - the data behind the charts

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Biotechnology and health technology sector - life sciences company data

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Biopharmaceutical infographic 2019

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Digital health infographic 2019

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Life sciences infographic 2019

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Medical technology infographic 2019

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Details

This report has been classified as an Official Statistic and is compliant with the Code of Practice for Statistics. This annual report analyses the updated 2019 dataset from the bioscience and health technology sector.

The data relates to companies that are active in the UK in the life sciences sectors:

  • medical technology
  • bio-pharmaceuticals

This report shows that the UK life sciences industry:

  • employs 256,100 people across the UK
  • generates a combined estimated turnover of £80.7 billion
  • comprises 6,300 businesses
Published 20 August 2020
Last updated 15 September 2021 + show all updates

  1. We have identified several minor errors in the Bioscience and Health Technology Sector Statistics published on the 20 August 2020. Details of these errors (which have been corrected) are as follows. Section 2 – Sector overviews: Several sector breakdowns provide the number of ‘businesses’ in a segment but labelled these as the number of ‘sites’ in the original publication. These errors have been corrected on pages 11, 12 and 13. Section 4 – Digital health & genomics: Overall genomics related activity in the UK is located in 60 sites (previously quoted as 50 on pages 19 and 20). Life Sciences Infographic: The ‘Industry Characteristics’ section states that the top 25 Biopharmaceutical companies and top 30 Medical technology companies globally are responsible for 24% of employment and 37% or turnover in the UK Life Sciences sector. These were quoted as 22% or employment and 35% of turnover in the original publication. We have altered our quality assurance framework to prevent a recurrence of these errors in the future and apologise for any issues they have caused our users.

  2. First published.

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