Prescription medicine use growth (5-year)

The use of prescription medicines in the U.S. — based on defined daily doses — has grown 13% in the last five years to 210 billion days of therapy across both retail and non‑retail settings, although growth slowed beginning in 2024.

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IQVIA Institute. (2025). U.S. Medicine Use Trends 2026. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/reports-and-publications/reports/us-medicine-use-trends-2026. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_N26BJ82FHJQ8BBWZQJC8YCE0MY

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IQVIA Institute. "U.S. Medicine Use Trends 2026." 2025, https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/reports-and-publications/reports/us-medicine-use-trends-2026. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_N26BJ82FHJQ8BBWZQJC8YCE0MY.

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Chicago

IQVIA Institute. "U.S. Medicine Use Trends 2026." 2025. https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/reports-and-publications/reports/us-medicine-use-trends-2026. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_N26BJ82FHJQ8BBWZQJC8YCE0MY.

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@misc{iqvia2025prescriptionyce0my, author = {{IQVIA Institute}}, title = {U.S. Medicine Use Trends 2026}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_N26BJ82FHJQ8BBWZQJC8YCE0MY}, note = {Original source: https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/reports-and-publications/reports/us-medicine-use-trends-2026. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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