By the Numbers: Robotics, Security Breaches and More

Take a look at some recent stats from the packaging, healthcare, logistics, regulatory and serialization sectors...

$4 trillion
THE ESTIMATED COST of healthcare spending worldwide in 2020—50% of global health care expenditures—on three leading causes of death: Cardiovascular diseases, cancers and respiratory diseases.
Source: Deloitte


24%
THE PERCENTAGE of security breaches in 2018 involving healthcare organizations, up from 15% in 2017, according to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report.

59 million
THE ESTIMATED NUMBER of total pharmaceutical saleable returns annually, representing 2 to 3% of total pharmaceutical sales.
Source: Healthcare Distribution Alliance


138,000
THE NUMBER of industrial robots installed in China in 2017 (approximately one third of all industrial robots sold worldwide). The U.S. purchased around 33,000 manufacturing robots in 2017.
Source: International Federation of Robotics

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