Malaysia. Malaysia has only 30 million people, or 12% the population of Indonesia, yet Malaysians spend more than $360 annually per person on healthcare, more than twice their per-capita spending a decade ago. The country’s total healthcare expenditure reached more than $12 billion in 2013 and is forecast to climb to almost $17 billion by 2015. Although Malaysia has significantly fewer people than Thailand and Indonesia, its medical device market, worth at $1 billion, is equal in value to the markets in these more populous countries. The device market in Malaysia is expected to nearly triple in value, to $2.7 billion, by 2018.

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Indonesia. Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest country by population with not less than 248 million people as of 2013. It is estimated that the country’s per-capita healthcare spending will reach almost $150 by 2015, up from $36 in 2005. The Indonesian medical device market is worth almost $1 billion and growing at 15% annually. Almost 95% of the market’s total value comes from imports, with 90% of all 2013 device registrations belonging to foreign manufacturers.

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