Official Statistics: Bioscience and health technology sector statistics 2023 to 2024

Statistics on the bioscience and health technology sector 2023 to 2024. These statistics are designated as 'official statistics in development'.

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Previous reports in the bioscience and health technology sector statistics (BaHTSS) series were labelled as ‘official statistics’. However, this 2023 to 2024 report has been classified as ‘official statistics in development’ to reflect the fact that substantial changes have been made to the publication following a change in methodology.

This change in designation is being implemented whilst the Office for Life Sciences (OLS):

The new methodology applies to 2023 to 2024 data only. It has not been possible to backdate or revise previous estimates of the life sciences sector (for 2021 to 2022 and earlier) using the new methodology. The estimates relating to 2023 to 2024 are therefore not directly comparable with estimates of the sector between 2008 to 2009 and 2021 to 2022. However, data for years between 2008 to 2009 and 2021 to 22 are still referenced in this publication where the definition of the metric remains unchanged, as these are still the best estimates of the sector available for those time periods.