Industries of Life

Over the past nine years, life science industries employment has grown by more than 27 percent, 17 percentage points more than total employment growth for the State of Utah over the same period. Expanding by 47 percent during the last nine years, healthcare has exhibited the largest growth among the major industrial sectors and this is closely related to the growth in the life science industries. Many of the goods produced by the life science industries are used in association with the services provided by the healthcare industry. When the healthcare industry does well, we should expect it to pull life sciences along with it. TrendLines