Medical and pharma in South Africa

Where care is, who cannot reach it, who is expanding, and how much of the region's medicine is made at home.

Exports of the pillar's goods, 2024US$831m+10% on five years earlier · 1st in SADC

Deals in the last 12 months04 tracked in South Africa in all

Life expectancy at birth, years, latest year for each country. Click a bar for that country's medical and pharma page.

Source: World Bank·dotzedw Insights Centre

Exports and imports of the products in this pillar's subsectors, each product counted once, US$

Source: CEPII BACI·dotzedw Insights Centre

Subsectors

8 in this pillar

Tracks: Hospitals by level and owner, private groups' footprints, new and expanded hospitals, specialist services, travel time to a major hospital.
Signals ahead: Hospital construction tenders, private groups' expansion plans, medical scheme growth.

Select a figure for its trend. Source: dotzedw deals tracker.

More figures for this subsector are being added.

South Africa's exports by subsector, 2024, US$, with its share of SADC's exports. A product can count in two subsectors.

Medicine and vaccine manufacturingUS$554m89.5% of SADC · +13% on five years earlier

Pharmacy and medicine distributionUS$353m89.6% of SADC · -1% on five years earlier

Medical devices, diagnostics and laboratoriesUS$277m78.3% of SADC · +6% on five years earlier

Source: CEPII BACI·dotzedw Insights Centre

0 deals in the last 12 months involving South Africa, placed in subsectors by what they say.