Pharmacy Market Size

Pharmacy Market size was valued at USD 1.37 trillion in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 3.36 trillion by the end of 2037, registering around 7.1% CAGR during the forecast period i.e., between 2025-2037. In the year 2025, the industry size of pharmacy is assessed at USD 1.45 trillion. The growth of the market is primarily attributed to the rising count of various type of diseases, and significant upsurge in variety of prescriptions worldwide. For instance, in 2019, the total number of prescriptions dispensed in England was 1.14 billion. This was an upsurge of 0.98% (10 million) over the past year's figure of 1.109 billion.

Pharmacy market renders the marketing of various drugs, medical devises to consumers and healthcare professionals. Since the outbreak of pandemic, the number of visitors have increased as a result of more awareness regarding health, hygiene, and so on. Therefore, numerous pharmacies including retail, and hospital grade have been adopting automation devices to provide swift services to patients. Now, various kind of automation systems are broadly used in pharmacies in the form of robotic dispensing, automated pill counting, bar code verification and so on. Thus, the adoption of automation is leading up the pharmacy market growth over the forecast period. For instance, Walgreens Boots Alliance is using automation technique to fill more prescriptions for customers in Dallas area since first quarter of 2022. Each robot is capable of filling 300 prescriptions in an hour.