According to the Department of Health's Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs, 859 clinical trials are currently under way in Taiwan. Though this figure still lags far behind that of the United States, which leads the world with 27,136 trials, it ranks first in Asia and tenth in the world.
根據衛生署藥政處的統計資料，台灣正在進行的臨床試驗高達 859 項，雖然相較於排名首位的美國（2 萬 7,136 件）仍有一段差距，但已居亞洲之冠、全球第 10 位。