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pharmaceutical industry

develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceuticals licensed for use as medications
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Summary

pharmaceutical industry is a type of industry[1]. It draws 4,466 Wikipedia views per month (type of industry category, ranking #5 of 34).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: pharmaceutical manufacturing[3], drug development[4], pharmaceutical sciences[5], pharmaceutical marketing[6]
  • Subclass of: industry[7]
  • Commons category: Pharmaceutical industry[8]
  • Said to be the same as: Big Pharma[9]
  • Has part(s): pharmaceutical company[10], clinical research[11], pharmaceuticals wholesales[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pharmaceutical industry[13]
  • Product or material produced: medication[14], pharmaceutical product[15]
  • Short name: Pharma[16]
  • Different from: manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations[17]
  • Has list: list of pharmaceutical companies[18], list of pharmaceutical laboratories by year of foundation[19], list of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United Kingdom[20]

Why It Matters

pharmaceutical industry has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Alcon APICDMO Arcus Biosciences AstraZeneca Bayer BioNTech Boehringer Ingelheim Byk Gulden Cipla Darou Pakhsh Eli Lilly and Company Enveda Fierce Pharma Founder Group Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA Galenica Gilead Sciences GSK Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical Company Limited Hoechst Hoffmann-La Roche Hometest IL Therapeutics Janssen Pharmaceutica John Pemberton Johnson & Johnson Jounce Therapeutics Karuna Therapeutics Kymera Therapeutics LBX Pharmacy

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dagens nyheter topic id → apoteksmarknaden
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Dagens nyheter topic id: apoteksmarknaden, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/22880906|Apoteksmarknaden (#22880906)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/488|DN t"
  2. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → pharmaceutical-industry
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: pharmaceutical-industry, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954750|pharmaceutical industry (#289954750)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/cata"
  3. 14w ago · Putnik · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → farmacijos-pramone
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: farmacijos-pramone"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003103-farmaceuticky-prumysl
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003103-farmaceuticky-prumysl, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → list of pharmaceutical companies, list of pharmaceutical laboratories by year of foundation, list of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United Kingdom
    Different from → manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
    Said to be the same as → Big Pharma
    Subclass of → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 11187, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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