{"title":"Pharmaceutical products market in Lithuania","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/lt/336-pharmaceutical-products","scope":"Lithuania","category":{"cpvGroup":"336","label":"Pharmaceutical products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Lithuania awarded 2,215 supply contracts for pharmaceutical products through award notices on TED; the 1,931 of them that state a value (87.2%) add up to €88.3 million. Lithuania imported €2.04 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to pharmaceutical products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3004, 3002, 3822 and 3003; all buyers, not only public ones), up 20.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 192 companies have won 7,209 public supply contracts for pharmaceutical products in Lithuania, in 1,617 award notices from 61 public buyers.","98.4% of these awards went to companies registered in Lithuania; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 40.5% of all awards.","40.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":7209,"awardNotices":1617,"winningCompanies":192,"publicBuyers":61,"awardsWithValue":6607,"awardedValueEur":307582499,"localAwards":7094,"foreignAwards":115,"top5Share":0.40463309751699267,"singleBidAwards":2603,"awardsWithKnownBids":6390,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":22,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":99764},{"year":2024,"awards":2655,"awardNotices":340,"awardsWithValue":2378,"awardedValueEur":88536986},{"year":2025,"awards":2215,"awardNotices":544,"awardsWithValue":1931,"awardedValueEur":88270373},{"year":2026,"awards":2317,"awardNotices":728,"awardsWithValue":2296,"awardedValueEur":130675376}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3004","label":"Medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses \"incl. those for transdermal administration\" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006)"},{"hs4":"3002","label":"Human blood"},{"hs4":"3822","label":"Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, other than those of heading 3002 or 3006"},{"hs4":"3003","label":"Medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1689032417},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1828582147},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2040008990}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Lithuania — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €9.55 billion in 2025, 11.2% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending.","General government spending on goods, services and investment for health in Lithuania came to €2.42 billion in 2024 (Eurostat, COFOG). How much of it reaches suppliers through tenders depends on how the country organises the sector — for example whether statutory health insurance is classified in government."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":9555000000,"percentOfGdp":11.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":27.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[{"text":"EFPIA puts the European pharmaceutical market at €302 billion at ex-factory prices in 2024, with €330 billion estimated for 2025.","source":"EFPIA, The Pharmaceutical Industry in Figures – Key Data 2026","url":"https://www.efpia.eu/media/owqczcqz/the-pharmaceutical-industry-in-figures-2026.pdf","referenceYear":"2024 (2025 estimate)"},{"text":"Medicines for Europe reports that generic medicines account for 70% of treatment volume in Europe (2023).","source":"Medicines for Europe, Press release: Generic medicines: 70% of dispensed medicines and critical to healthcare","url":"https://www.medicinesforeurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Press-release-Beneath-the-Surface-100424.pdf","referenceYear":"2023"},{"text":"Eurostat puts current healthcare expenditure in the EU at €1,720 billion in 2023, 10.0% of GDP; medical goods took 17.8% of it.","source":"Eurostat, Healthcare expenditure statistics - overview (Statistics Explained)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Healthcare_expenditure_statistics_-_overview","referenceYear":"2023 (EU provisional)"}],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Pharmaceutical products market in Lithuania\", https://cresques.com/markets/lt/336-pharmaceutical-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}