Italy Digital X-Ray Market Size

Italy Digital X-Ray Market Analysis

The Italy Digital X-Ray Market size is estimated at USD 415.93 million in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 578.75 million by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 6.83% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

The COVID pandemic had an adverse effect on the digital X-ray market growth. For instance, according to information provided by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2021, there were 4,991,151 computed tomography exams performed in Italy in 2020 as opposed to 5,809,718 in 2019. Additionally, as per the OECD estimates there were 55,863 total knee replacement procedures performed in the country in 2020 as opposed to 82,067 in 2019. This had a significant impact on how many digital x-ray scans were necessary to accurately diagnose the illness, and additional treatments had to be stopped. In Italy, numerous research projects are being conducted in the area of digital x-ray imaging for cancer diagnosis. For instance, researchers from the Radiology Unit, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, released an article in December 2020 with the title "Radiology imaging management in an Italian cancer center (IRST IRCCS) during the COVID-19 pandemic." All urgent and semi-urgent x-ray exams, including those to stage newly diagnosed cancers and gauge treatment response, were reportedly assured during the epidemic, ensuring the patients' diagnostic and therapeutic routes would continue. The market growth is therefore anticipated to be boosted by effectively managing the patient flow during emergencies like COVID-19. Thus, in the upcoming future, the market is expected to grow.

Factors such as increasing chronic disorders coupled with increasing initiatives by market players are expected to increase the market growth. According to a June 2021 article by the National Library of Medicine titled "Cardiovascular disease burden: Italian and global perspectives," age-standardized estimates of cardiovascular disease prevalence in Italy are similar, but the country's crude prevalence is almost two times higher than the global prevalence (12.9% vs. 6.6%). The prevalence of heart illness is expected to fuel market expansion. The prevalence of dental caries is especially high among children in Italy, according to studies, which is predicted to support market expansion. For example, only 30.45% of the children were caries-free, with 32.05% of the children being female and 29.62% being male, according to the Scientific Reports Journal article titled "Caries severity and socioeconomic inequalities in a nationwide setting: data from the Italian National Pathfinder in 12-year-old children" published in September 2020. The high prevalence of caries is expected to create demand for x-ray equipment for associated disease diagnosis leading to market growth. Hence, the above factors are further expected to improve the market growth in the coming years.