Seasonal Influenza Vaccines Market Will Hit $4.3 billion by 2025

The seasonal influenza vaccine market across the seven major markets (7MM) of the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and Japan, will rise from $3.1 billion in 2015 to $4.3 billion by 2025, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.

The company’s latest report states that the main growth drivers during the forecast period will include amendments to the national immunization schedules of the US and the UK, the expansion of egg-based quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccines across Germany, Italy, France, and Spain, and the transition from egg-based to cell culture-based vaccines.

Quadrivalent influenza vaccines, which contain antigens against two influenza type A and two influenza type B subtypes, offer broader coverage than trivalent (two influenza A and a single influenza B strain) formulations. In 2015, Japan replaced its trivalent, seasonal influenza vaccines with quadrivalent formulations, and it is expected that trivalent vaccines will be virtually absent from the US market within the next five years. Quadrivalent vaccines will also expand throughout Europe by 2025.