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Fig. 1: Trends in expenditures on pharmaceutical products from 1944 to 2004. Shown are values derived from Statistics Canada's historical data on pharmaceutical manufacturers' sales (orange line) and more recent data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) on retail spending (blue line). Per capita spending has been adjusted for general inflation and is expressed in terms of year-2004 purchasing power. The 5-year average growth rates (triangles) in inflation-adjusted per capita expenditures illustrate spending cycles over the past 60 years.