Official Statistics

Bioscience and health technology sector statistics 2020

Official statistics on the bioscience and health technology sector 2020

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Bioscience and health technology sector statistics 2020 - underlying data

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Biopharmaceutical infographic 2020

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Digital health infographic 2020

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Life sciences infographic 2020

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Medical technology infographic 2020

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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 2020 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 268,000 people across the UK
  • generates a combined estimated turnover of £88.9 billion
  • comprises 6,330 businesses

Updates to this page

Published 3 December 2021
Last updated 7 February 2022 + show all updates
  1. Corrected formatting of employment band description column in life sciences company data CSV file.

  2. First published.

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