NACE division 21. 192 active Irish companies, 23 registered in the last 12 months.
Active companies
192
Manufacturing: 5,677
Median filing delay
266 days
Ireland: 273 days
Annual returns overdue
19.8%
Ireland: 11.5%
Foreign parent
1
of 7 with an LEI
Sector economy
Official statistics for pharmaceuticals: business surveys (European Commission) and the CSO. A tag shows when the CSO only publishes the figure for a wider group.
Irish industry confidence
-2.6
7th percentile since 2005 · EU -4.4 · Oct 2026
EU confidence, this activity
+2.4
33rd percentile since 2005 · +3.3 on a year
People employed
67,600
-9.1% on a year · 2026 Q2
Average weekly earnings
€2,052
+4.0% on a year · Ireland €1,047
Industrial production volume
-5.1%
3 months to Aug 2026 vs a year earlier Manufacturing
Producer prices
+8.4%
on a year · Sep 2026 Manufacturing, excluding food, beverages and tobacco
Job vacancy rate
0.8%
Ireland 1.3% · 2026 Q2 Industry
Enterprises (CSO)
256
8.6% new in 2024 · 132 people each on average
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Confidence indicators are balances: % of firms reporting improvement minus % reporting deterioration, seasonally adjusted; industry confidence combines order books, stocks (inverted) and production expectations. Ireland's figures by activity stop in Jan 2023; the Commission still publishes Ireland's sector-wide indicators.
Firms in this activity across the EU expect: employment +7.9, selling prices +14.4 (balances, next 3 months).
Every measure we compute for pharmaceuticals, ranked against the other activities (1st = highest value). Hover a card for the definition. Compare in the sector explorer.
Companies: CRO open data, by the NACE code each company declares. Sector economy: see sources above.
CRO records an activity code (NACE) for 64.0% of active companies (99.2% of those under 5 years old, 99.5% of those 5 to 10 years old, 12.0% of those over 10 years old), so company counts by sector cover the coded companies, which skew young.