“The new drug development is the only way to overcome the situation,” reflecting decreases in salesman and increases in researchers

For the past 8 years, pharmaceutical companies have reorganized personnel structures.

While the number of salesman has constantly decreased from 35.3% in 2005 to 29.2% in 2013 with 6.1% differences, the number of researchers has increased from 8.5% in 2005 to 12.0% in 2013.with 3.5% differences.

Particularly, the number of pharmaceutical research personnel exceeded 10,000 people in 2013.

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