Median drug approval time
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Canada · 2025
Median drug approval time in Canada was 369 days in 2025 (CIRS).
Median drug approval time: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- CIRS
- Authority tier
- T3 Research
- Locator
- Key Findings
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
PMDA recorded the shortest median approval time in 2025 (292 days), followed by FDA (322 days), TGA (350 days), Health Canada (369 days), Swissmedic (413 days) and EMA (448 days).
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APA
Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science. (2025). New Drug Approvals by Six Major Authorities 2016-2025. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://cirsci.org/publications/cirs-rd-briefing-106-new-drug-approvals-by-six-major-authorities-2016-2025/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BMDC33RH0WZRBZQQAKRN7VZZF1
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- MLA
- Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science. "New Drug Approvals by Six Major Authorities 2016-2025." 2025, https://cirsci.org/publications/cirs-rd-briefing-106-new-drug-approvals-by-six-major-authorities-2016-2025/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BMDC33RH0WZRBZQQAKRN7VZZF1.
- Chicago
- Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science. "New Drug Approvals by Six Major Authorities 2016-2025." 2025. https://cirsci.org/publications/cirs-rd-briefing-106-new-drug-approvals-by-six-major-authorities-2016-2025/. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BMDC33RH0WZRBZQQAKRN7VZZF1.
- BibTeX
- @misc{cirs2025median7vzzf1, author = {{Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science}}, title = {New Drug Approvals by Six Major Authorities 2016-2025}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BMDC33RH0WZRBZQQAKRN7VZZF1}, note = {Original source: https://cirsci.org/publications/cirs-rd-briefing-106-new-drug-approvals-by-six-major-authorities-2016-2025/. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 3 · Research and companies
- Report
- New Drug Approvals by Six Major Authorities 2016-2025
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Key Findings
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_BMDC33RH0WZRBZQQAKRN7VZZF1