Sterile Medical Packaging Market - Historic Data (2019-2024), Global Trends 2025, Growth Forecasts 2037
Sterile Medical Packaging Market in 2025 is assessed at USD 55.34 billion. The global Market size was valued at over USD 52.17 billion in 2024 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of around 7.6%, surpassing USD 135.2 billion revenue by 2037. North America is forecast to hit largest share by 2037, owing to high expenditure on healthcare in the region.
The primary factor for the market growth is attributed to the rising cases of cardiovascular diseases and deaths owing to it, which leads to an increase demand for sterile medical packaging during the treatment. As per World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases are considered to be leading cause of deaths globally, taking almost 17.9 million lives in 2019, which is equivalent to 63% of the total deaths occurred.
The sterile medical packaging market is witnessing growing demand from the healthcare industry. The main reason behind this high demand is owing to the large pool of patients in the world. During the treatment of patients, proper sterilization packaging is required for the purpose of sterilizing and packaging medical devices and the other instruments. Thus, the increment in number of deaths due prevalence diseases such as non-communicable diseases is anticipated to increase the adoption rate of sterile medical packaging market in hospitals, ambulances and clinics. As per a report published by World Health Organization in 2021, it is stated that non-communicable diseases kill almost 41 million peach each year, equivalent in 71% of global deaths.
Sterile Medical Packaging Sector: Growth Drivers and Challenges
Growth Drivers
- Rising Prevalence of Unhealthy Lifestyle Diseases Worldwide – The population has shifted towards inactivity and unhealthy lifestyle. This has resulted in a number of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and high blood among the population. This trend is increasing the pressure in healthcare sector, which is further expected to bring lucrative opportunities in the sterile medical packaging market in the assessment period. The prevalence of diabetes was accounted to be almost 10% i.e. 460 million people in the year 2019, and continue to increase steadily in the future and reach 11% i.e. 700 million people by 2030.
- Increasing Incidence of Heart Diseases Cases – Obesity and overweight is rising in alarming rate among the population. This has led to increase in number of heart disease patients across the world. This has brought the need of deploying of sterile medical packaging market across the healthcare sector. Heart attack and strokes accounted the major portion of heart diseases in the recent years. Around 85% of the cardiovascular diseases deaths were responsible due to heart attack and strokes in 2019.
- Global Rise of Patient Visits – The latest reports revealed that in 2020, around 770 million outpatient visits took place in the hospitals of the United States.
- Expansion of Healthcare Sector - The revenue generated by the global healthcare sector in 2022, stood up at USD 60 billion.
- Escalation in Health Expenditure – The World Bank released the health expenditure of the world in the year 2019, which accounted to be 9.83% of the total GDP. This is a rise from 2017, where global health expenditure was 9.77% of total GDP.
Challenges
- Extra Medical Packaging Integrity
- Rising Number of Stringent Regulations
- Low Awareness about Sterile Medical Packaging
Sterile Medical Packaging Market: Key Insights
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Base Year |
2024 |
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Forecast Year |
2025-2037 |
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CAGR |
7.6% |
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Base Year Market Size (2024) |
USD 52.17 billion |
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Forecast Year Market Size (2037) |
USD 135.2 billion |
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Sterile Medical Packaging Segmentation
Application {Medical Disposable Supplies (Surgical Preparation Kits, Sutures & Catheters, Pre-Packaged Medical Supplies); Medical Equipment (Cardiovascular, Neurovascular, Endoscopic)
The sterile medical packaging market is segmented and analyzed for demand and supply by application into medical disposable supplies and medical equipment. Further, the medical equipment is segmented into cardiovascular, neurovascular, endoscopic, and others. Out of these, cardiovascular segment is expected to garner the highest market share by 2037, owing to rising cases of heart diseases. As per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one person dies every 34 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. Further, around 697,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2020.
Our in-depth analysis of the global sterile medical packaging market includes the following segments:
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Sterile Medical Packaging Industry - Regional Synopsis
Regionally, the global sterile medical packaging market is studied into five major regions including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa region. Amongst these markets, the market in North America is projected to hold the largest market share by the end of 2037. The market in the region is primarily driven by the high expenditure on healthcare. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, stated that the national health expenditure 9.7% to USD 4.1 trillion in 2020, or USD 12,530 per person. This accounted for 19.7% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Further, the burden of chronic diseases and the deaths occurred by it is an another factor for the expansion of life care solution services. The recent study of 2022, stated that 6 in 10 adults in the U.S. have a chronic disease and chronic disease is the leading driver of the nation’s 4.1 trillion dollars.
Companies Dominating the Sterile Medical Packaging Landscape
- DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
- Company Overview
- Business Strategy
- Key Product Offerings
- Financial Performance
- Key Performance Indicators
- Risk Analysis
- Recent Development
- Regional Presence
- SWOT Analysis
- Amcor Group GmbH
- 3M
- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
- Sonoco Products Company
- Placon Corporation
- Nelipak Corporation
- Wipak Group
- Tekni-Plex, Inc.
- BillerudKorsnäs AB
Recent Developments
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DuPont de Nemours, Inc. along with Technipaq Inc. and Freepoint Eco-Systems has partnered to promote sustainability and reduce and recycle medical packaging plastic waste.
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Amcor Group GmbH has launched ACT2100 heat seal coating for medical grade DuPont Tyvek 2 and other paper packaging applications. This effective coating technology is expected to deliver enhanced performance features for healthcare applications.
Author Credits: Abhishek Bhardwaj
- Report ID: 4285
- Published Date: May 08, 2025
- Report Format: PDF, PPT
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