Medical Device Markets in the World to 2020 - Market Size, Development, and Forecasts
Description- The expansion of the global medical device industry is forecast to reach 2.8% p.a. in the coming years. Between 2009 and 2015 the market increased with an average annual growth of 4.4%. Currently, electro-diagnostic equipment accounts for 11.9% of the global demand while the remaining market share is divided between catheters, cannulae and needles (10.7%), medical and dental X-ray equipment (8.2%), artificial joints (3.7%), therapeutic respiration equipment (3.3%), massage and psychological aptitude-test equipment (2.3%), dental instruments and appliances (2.2%), ophthalmic instruments and appliances (2.2%), pacemakers for stimulating heart muscles (2.2%), medical furniture (2.1%), syringes (2.1%), computed tomography equipment (1.9%), hearing aids (1.8%), dental fittings (1.4%), tubular metal needles and needles for sutures (1.2%), breathing appliances and gas masks (0.7%), surgical, medical and laboratory sterilizers (0.5%), alpha, beta and gamma radiation equipm