What’s Driving the 7.8% Revenue Growth in India’s Pharma Market for April?

Synopsis
India's pharmaceutical sector is booming! With a remarkable <b>7.8% year-on-year revenue growth</b> in April, the market is driven by strategic price hikes and innovative product launches. Explore how chronic therapies and anti-diabetic segments are leading this growth trend.
Key Takeaways
- 7.8% yoy revenue growth in India’s pharmaceutical market for April.
- Price increases and new product launches are key drivers.
- Chronic therapies continue to show strong growth momentum.
- Volume growth was notable in anti-diabetic and gastro-intestinal therapies.
- Overall, a positive outlook for FY26 with expected growth of 7-8%.
New Delhi, May 8 (NationPress) The pharmaceutical market in India (IPM) has recorded a robust growth of 7.8 percent year-on-year (yoy) in revenue for April, as reported on Thursday.
This report, published by the rating agency India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), indicates that the growth was primarily fueled by price increases implemented by companies, with a 1.3 percent yoy growth in volume. Notably, the majority of major chronic therapies also exhibited positive growth in both value and volume.
“Ind-Ra anticipates the IPM to achieve a growth rate of 7 percent to 8 percent yoy during FY26, supported by a consistent growth trend in chronic therapies, driven by price hikes and new product introductions,” stated Nishith Sanghvi, Director of Corporate Ratings at Ind-Ra.
The report detailed that the anti-diabetic sector witnessed a volume growth of 2.8 percent yoy in April, attributed to opportunities from genericization.
Additionally, significant volume growth was recorded in key therapy areas including gastro-intestinal (5.5 percent), dermatology (3.1 percent), and cardiac (2.2 percent).
Moreover, April 2025 showed a stable performance with value growth noted across various therapies.
Therapies such as cardiac, gastro-intestinal, anti-diabetic, and dermatology experienced higher volume growth compared to the overall IPM.
Acute therapies, including gastro-intestinal, vitamins, pain/analgesics, and anti-infectives, saw sales growth of 10.1 percent, 7.5 percent, 8.5 percent, and 6.5 percent yoy respectively.
Chronic therapies like dermatology, cardiac, anti-diabetic, and CNS grew 10.8 percent yoy, 10.6 percent yoy, 7.7 percent yoy, and 9.1 percent yoy correspondingly.
The March report from Ind-Ra indicated that the acute segment's sales grew 6.4 percent yoy (March 2024: 6.7 percent yoy), while chronic and sub-chronic therapy segments rose by 8.0 percent yoy (12.8 percent) and 8.4 percent yoy (12.3 percent) respectively.
Cardiac (chronic; 13.4 percent of IPM), anti-infectives (acute; 11.7 percent), gastro-intestinal (acute; 12.1 percent), anti-diabetic (chronic; 9.2 percent), and vitamins (acute; 9.0 percent) collectively contributed 55 percent to the IPM in March 2025.