Hard data to strengthen your planning for 2023
As Latin America emerges from the COVID crisis, it’s encouraging to see elective surgical procedures return to pre-pandemic levels, while demand for a wide range of equipment is increasing.
Despite these positive trends, it’s still crucial for companies to have a broad, detailed sense of the equipment hospitals acquired in 2021 and what trends look like for 2022 and beyond. And that’s where data and recent trends will be crucial to forecast demand, including:
- Total amounts in Latin America—and by country—of C-arms, MRI machines, CT scanners and other specialized equipment
- 70 hospitals in Latin America that purchase more high-tech products than any other hospitals in the region
- 12 types of medical equipment with the most growth in Brazil between 2018-2021
- The top 10 fastest-growing types of medical equipment in Mexico
- The healthcare technology with 39% demand growth in Central America
- 16 types of medical equipment in Colombia that are growing from 5% to nearly 50%, year-on-year
Armed with this deep dive
into existing base installed equipment, overall infrastructure, import trends and medical equipment acquisition trends, you and your team will be able to understand the market and guide your product launches, marketing approaches and targeting as you and your team plan for 2023.

Here are detailed highlights of what you will find in Medical Equipment Market Report: Latin America 2022:
Market Overview
- A breakdown of key hospital infrastructure totals for Latin American hospitals, including total beds, operating rooms, delivery rooms, surgical procedures conducted per year and more
- Average number of operating rooms in Latin American countries
- Basic equipment penetration levels in LatAm hospitals (EKG machines, X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, infusion pumps, monitors and more)
- Per-hospital averages of basic equipment types
- Penetration levels of specialized equipment in LatAm hospitals (CT scanners, C-arms, hemodialysis machines, gamma cameras, linear accelerators, robotic surgery and more)
- Per-hospital averages of specialized equipment in hospitals
- Breakdowns of percentages of public-private hospitals and number of hospital beds for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and other key markets
- Healthcare technology penetration (EMRs, robotic surgery, RIS, telemedicine and more) for 7 key Latin American markets
Technology Leaders
- The top 10 technology leaders among LatAm hospitals in 7 key markets
- The leaders consist of hospitals with the specific amounts they possess of 8 types of high-tech equipment, such as PET systems, robotic surgery systems, linear accelerators, C-arms and more
- 70 total hospitals, all with strong sales potential for advanced medical products
Hospital Profiles for Key Latin American Markets
For each of the following countries — Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru — the report offers detailed data that includes:
- Total number of hospitals
- Hospital type breakdown (public vs. private)
- Equipment categories with the most sales growth in 2021
- Equipment categories with the largest drops in 2021
- Base installed equipment penetration rates for 26 equipment types, from anesthesia machines, colposcopes and endoscopy towers to gamma cameras, PACs, RIS, ventilators and X-ray machines)
- Totals of ORs, ICUs and other specialized units
- Levels of healthcare technology penetration
- Base installed equipment growth 2018-2021 for longer-term understanding of trends
And much more.
As Latin America recovers from the devastating effects of the COVID pandemic, hard data is crucial to map out your path to success in 2023 and beyond. Only Medical Equipment Market Report Latin America 2022 will give you the rock-solid numbers you need to understand each market, identify sales opportunities and bring back your sales figures to pre-pandemic levels.