According to the chief economist of Danske Bank, “For the economy outside the pharmaceutical industry, you can at best say that there is stagnation. We don’t really have any growth.”
- Novo Nordisk is able to pull the entire Danish economy together thanks to two drugs: Ozempic (for diabetes) and Wegovy (for weight loss). In the second quarter of 2023 (April-June) they reported a profit after tax of 19.4 billion DKK.