{"id":7695,"date":"2018-06-18T23:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:19:59","slug":"why-latin-america-is-one-of-the-worlds-hottest-hospital-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/ghi-analysis\/why-latin-america-is-one-of-the-worlds-hottest-hospital-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Latin America Is One of the World\u2019s Hottest Hospital Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

As global marketing and business development executives for pharmaceuticals<\/a>, medical equipment and medical devices<\/a> look to expand their footprints \u2014 and sales \u2014 on a worldwide level, emerging hospital markets like Latin America<\/a> and Asia make sense to target aggressively.<\/p>\n

It comes down to numbers: Latin America<\/a> has more than 20,000 hospitals, compared to 5,754 for the United States, for example. By itself, Brazil<\/a> is #4 in the world in terms of amount of hospitals, with 7,878, behind Japan (8,565), India (8,652) and China (23,170).<\/p>\n

In fact, Brazil and Mexico are both in the top 10 of countries with the most hospitals: the amount of hospitals in Mexico is 3,658, more than Germany or France and more than 5 times the amount of hospitals in Canada (725).<\/p>\n

Beyond Brazil and Mexico, other key hospital markets in Latin America<\/a> are Colombia<\/a> (with 2,554 hospitals), Argentina<\/a> (2,306 hospitals) and Chile<\/a> (383 hospitals). While Chile\u2019s amount of hospitals may seem relatively small, keep in mind that it has more hospitals than Switzerland (298), the Netherlands (259) and Belgium (191), among other markets.<\/p>\n[thrive_leads id=’7630′]\n

Growth Prospects<\/h2>\n

Of course, the greater opportunity for global medical equipment or device brands is not just in the sheer number of hospitals: it\u2019s about the rapidly growing demand that Latin American hospitals have for this equipment.<\/p>\n

In tracking this growth with the\u00a0HospiScope<\/a> database, we\u2019ve seen hospitals in Latin America<\/a> significantly grow their equipment counts in 2017<\/a>. For example:<\/p>\n