ASSISTIVE PRODUCTS MARKET REPORT 2025

ASSISTIVE PRODUCTS MARKET REPORT 2025

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Table of Contents

1

Foreword

2

Acknowledgements

Contributors and peer reviewers

Crosscutting

Digital

Hearing Aids

3

Prostheses

Spectacles

Wheelchairs

4

List of Tables and Figures

5 6

Acronyms

7 8

Executive summary

Outlook for assistive products

Unaddressed demand in LMICs

9

Role of private sector in meeting demand

Factors driving high costs of assistive products

10

Systemic barriers impede equitable access:

11 12

1. Introduction

Methodology

13 14

Limitations

15 16

2. Demand landscape

17 18 19 20 21 22

2.1 Hearing aids

Hearing aids demand landscape

23

NGO market

24 25

Corporate foundations

Global Procurement Services

26

Government market

27

Conclusion

28

2.2 Prostheses

Prostheses demand landscape

NGO market

29 30 31 32 33

Government market

34 35

Conclusion

36

2.3 Smartphones (digital assistive technology)

Smartphones demand landscape

37 38

LMIC government market

39 40

NGO market

Conclusion

41

2.4 Spectacles

Spectacles demand landscape

42

NGO Market

43 44 45 46 47 48 49

Government market

50

Conclusion

51

2.5 Wheelchairs

52

Wheelchair demand landscape

53

NGO market

54 55

Social enterprises

56 57 58

Global procurement services for quality affordable wheelchairs

59

Government market

60

Conclusion

61 62

2.6 Recommendations to address demand challenges for assistive products

63

3. Assistive products supply cost drivers

64

Cost components that are critical across assistive products supply chains:

65

Cost component analysis for spectacles supply:

66 67

Cost component analysis for hearing aids supply:

68 69

Cost component analysis for prostheses components supply:

70

Cost component analysis for wheelchairs supply

71 72 73

Recommendations to optimize supply cost

All products

Spectacles

74

Prostheses

Hearing aids and wheelchairs

Hearing aids, prostheses, and wheelchairs

75

4. Conclusion

76

References

77 78 79

Annex 1: China Assistive Product Supplier Landscape

Executive summary

Key takeaways from the section

Market size:

80

Key survey insights:

Key challenges for Chinese manufacturers:

Recommendations:

81 82

Annex 2: NGOs, social enterprises and corporate foundations included in the report

83

Annex 3: Country Summaries: Demand Landscape