Wheelchair Market Share

North American Market Forecast   

The North America wheelchair market, amongst the market in all the other regions, is projected to hold the largest market share by the end of 2037. The growth of the market can be attributed majorly to the increasing number of disabled people owing to the rising sports injuries and road accidents. As of 2020, approximately 12% of the population residing in the United States was estimated to have some sort of disability. Furthermore, a high prevalence of self-care disability has been observed, where people face difficulties in bathing and dressing. For instance, more than 3% of the U.S. population suffers from self-care disability. Additionally, growth in the regional geriatric population with severe disabilities is also expected to push the market growth over the forecast period. Some biological facts and the decay in the bones over time are responsible for causing disability in geriatrics owing to which personal mobility devices are increasingly used among the older generation in the region. Furthermore, spinal cord and neurological disorders are also very common in geriatrics, since at a certain point in time, the functionality of the human brain begins to slow down. For instance, in the United States, it was observed that half of the geriatric lives with a severe disability. Hence, all these factors are projected to expand the market size during the forecast period.