Consumer Health

The COVID-19 crisis continued to affect the development of the Nigerian consumer health market in 2021. Vitamins and dietary supplements were amongst the categories to see demand bolstered by the ongoing interest in products believed to enhance the…

As lockdowns have been lifted, shopping has returned to “normal”, helping to drive growth in consumer health sales in current value terms. In addition, frequent pharmacy visits are leading to better informed and educated patients, since they are able…

With lockdowns having been lifted by the second half of 2021 and German consumers gradually adapting to the “new normal”, albeit with lower but improving levels of mobility, especially for those vaccinated against COVID-19, overall value sales of…

During 2021 Paraguay was impacted by the ongoing presence of COVID-19 and government measures to curtail it, while vaccines have been slow to roll out. Although GDP is set to grow during 2021, this will in the main be stimulated by rising prices,…

After a successful 2020 in terms of the management of the pandemic, Uruguay experienced the worst period of the health emergency in the first semester of 2021. Uruguay, with a population of 3.4 million inhabitants, has not applied a mandatory…

Overall, consumer health is projected to post positive retail volume and current value growth in 2021. With general health and immune system concerns gaining importance, product types exhibiting a proactive approach to health are fuelling sales…

Despite an overall slight decline in current value in 2021, consumer health has overall strongly benefitted from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The category saw significant growth in 2020, when consumers increased their purchases of consumer…

Consumer health will observe continuing growth in 2021, albeit slightly slowed from the previous year’s growth, as healthcare continues to be a key focus of consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The continued growth is despite the challenging…

The third peak of COVID-19 in Colombia, which began at Easter 2021, resulted in the highest hospital load and lethality, with 31,000 cases and 650 deaths recorded in one day. Unlike the other peaks of the pandemic, the country faced this with a…

Consumer health has seen unprecedented opportunities for growth in 2021, mainly driven by the rapid recovery of OTC products, together with the steady growth of vitamins and dietary supplements, driven by enhanced awareness of preventative health and…

Consumer health in 2021: The big picture

This report analyses the market for consumer health in Panama. For the purposes of the study, the market has been defined as follows:

The pandemic has been a boon for consumer health in Pakistan and in 2021, it is expected that current value growth will again be high, though not as high as in 2020. Inflation is also an issue. All the same, in spite of inflationary pressure,…

Compared to the previous year when, despite certain restrictions, many OTC product areas saw faster growth than usual as consumers, not knowing what to expect during unprecedented lockdown measures, began to stockpile products across consumer health,…

Consumer health is set to register yet another year of solid current value growth in 2021, following impressive growth rates witnessed the previous year due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The latter has been disruptive to…

The first wave of COVID-19 in 2020 led to supply chain issues but the widespread stockpiling of consumer health products during that period helped the overall industry to record positive growth in current value terms. While consumer concerns around…

Having declined for the first time in well over a decade during 2020, there is set to be modest growth in retail current value sales of consumer health during 2021. However, OTC retail current value sales will continue to decline, with cough, cold…

Overall, in 2021, value growth is expected to be on a par with 2020, with a small increase in current value sales. Consumer health was not hugely affected by COVID-19, though there were products that benefitted quite significantly and certain other…

The consumer health sector in Algeria has been greatly affected by supply chain issues, in common with much of the rest of the world. This has not only reduced the availability of the large number of OTC health products that are imported, but has…

Lebanon is in the midst of an economic crisis with rising poverty levels and shortages of vital resources such as power and water, while healthcare also remains stretched. As a result, many consumers are limiting their spending to essentials, while…