Headline Expenditure Projections
Pharmaceuticals: TWD167.7bn (USD5.5bn) in 2014 to TWD175.1bn (USD5.6bn) in 2015; +4.4% in local currency terms and +0.5% in US dollar terms. Unchanged from previous quarter.
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Healthcare: TWD1,005.4bn (USD33.2bn) in 2014 to TWD1,046.8bn (USD33.2bn) in 2015; +4.1% in local currency terms and +0.3% in US dollar terms. Forecast maintained from previous quarter.
Risk/Reward Index
Taiwan ranks fourth out of the 19 key markets with a score at 64.9 for Q415 in our Risk/Reward Index, edging ahead of Hong Kong in the Asia Pacific region in terms of attractiveness. Key to the country's high score is its high market expenditure at TWD167bn (USD5.5bn) which scores 14.0 out of 20.0, above the regional average of 10.6. However, this is dragged down by the sector's growth (scoring 6.0 out of 12.0, below the regional average of 6.5) as authorities look towards cost containment measures including medicine price cuts to control rising healthcare spending.
Key Trends and Developments
For the month of August 2015, Taiwan's Health Promotion Administration urged patients diagnosed with cancer to get treatment immediately. According to authorities, 18% of all cancer patients in the country do not get treatment within three months of their diagnosis. This resulted in a 53% one-year mortality rate as compared with 17% among those who sought treatment immediately.
In July 2015, the Common Health Magazine disclosed the results of a survey which suggested that 52% of the public were willing to pay TWD10 (USD0.3) to TWD100 (USD3.1) more health insurance.
The Taiwan Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report features BMI Research's forecasts for drugs and healthcare expenditure and imports and exports, focusing on the growth outlook for the prescription, OTC, patented drugs and generics market segments.
BMI's Taiwan Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report provides industry professionals, strategists, company executives, investors, analysts and sales/marketing heads with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on the Taiwan pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
Key Benefits
* Benchmark BMI's pharmaceutical and healthcare market forecasts for Taiwan, to test other views - a key input for successful budgeting and strategic business planning in the Taiwanese pharmaceutical and healthcare market.
* Target business opportunities and risks in the Taiwanese pharmaceutical and healthcare sector
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