Producer Price Index for Drugs and pharmaceuticals

Description

PPI or Producer Price Index (also known as wholesale price index) for drugs and pharmaceuticals. PPI data is normalized with price for 1982 = 100. The PPI value presented here is the average of the monthly value for each year. Includes the following:

  • medicinal and botanical chemicals, drugs, and other products
  • synthetic organic medicinal chemicals, medicinal & botanical drugs, & other products
  • veterinary pharmaceutical preparations
  • pharmaceuticals for veterinary use
  • biological products, including diagnostics
  • biological products, excluding diagnostic, for veterinary, industrial, and all other misc. uses
  • biological veterinary vaccines, bacterins, toxoids, other antigens, and other biologics
  • diagnostics
  • in-vitro diagnostic substances
  • biological products, excluding diagnostic, for human use
  • pharmaceutical preparations
  • pharmaceuticals affecting neoplasms, the endocrine system, & metabolic diseases
  • cancer therapy products
  • insulin/anti-diabetes products
  • other neoplasms, endocrine system, and metabolic diseases
  • hormones and oral contraceptives
  • pharmaceuticals acting on the central nervous system and the sense organs
  • analgesics
  • psycho-therapeutics
  • antidepressants
  • other psychotherapeutics, including tranquilizers
  • anticonvulsants
  • other central nervous system and sense organs
  • pharmaceuticals acting on the cardiovascular system
  • anticoagulants, hemostatics, and digitalis preparations
  • ace inhibitors
  • calcium channel blockers
  • other cardiovascular preparations
  • pharmaceuticals acting on the respiratory system
  • antihistamines and bronchodilators, including antiasthmatics
  • other respiratory preparations
  • pharmaceuticals acting on the digestive or the genito-urinary systems
  • other digestive or genito-urinary preparations
  • antacids
  • pharmaceuticals acting on the skin
  • emollients and protectives, including burn remedies
  • other pharmaceutical preparations acting on the skin
  • anti-acne preparations
  • vitamin, nutrient, and hematinic preparations
  • multivitamins
  • other vitamins and nutrients
  • pharmaceuticals affecting parasitic and infective diseases
  • broad and medium spectrum antibiotics
  • systemic antivirals
  • other parasitic and infective diseases


PPI data updated: Oct 8, 2019

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