| When looking at the costs that surround the products | | | | total of $2.1 billion dollars in 2005 and that global sales |
| used in the adult diaper industry, the numbers are quite | | | | would reach $5.8 billion dollars also again in 2005. |
| staggering. It is surprising to note that in 2008, the | | | | In the year 2000, the adult diaper production market |
| incontinence industry created a figure close to $26.3 | | | | reached a figure of $594 million dollars according to an |
| billion dollars, or roughly speaking $3565 per person | | | | article published by Information Resources of Chicago. |
| with incontinence. This total is also related to many of | | | | This sum does not take into account any sales made |
| the treatment programs, medical undertakings, and | | | | directly to medical facilities and hospitals. A decade |
| drugs used to treat incontinence and the problems of | | | | before this sum was published, The Theta Corporation |
| having accidents where people least expect to have | | | | made an annual report which said that the home use |
| them. | | | | and retail use markets made a number of $275 million |
| The costs surrounding OAB roughly translates to a | | | | dollars; quite a figure for 1991. This figure included all |
| sum of $12.6 billion dollars as seen and found in year | | | | products relating to the undergarment and diaper |
| 2000 dollars. Community and medical patients using | | | | industry. |
| incontinence products on a daily basis spent around | | | | In 2000 again, the medical profession recorded a |
| $9.1 and $3.5 billion dollars. Nearly half of these costs | | | | number of $465 million dollars, or tallying up the total |
| relate directly to incontinence and UI are mainly used | | | | market value of all incontinence products, producing a |
| for medical services paid for upfront by Medicare. | | | | figure of $740 million dollars. This represented an |
| The final monetary amount used for care of UI and | | | | annual increase in value of 8.9% between the years of |
| OAB patients in nursing institutions is estimated at a | | | | 1991 and 2000 respectively. Applying these same |
| figure of $5.3 billion dollars. One professional was | | | | figures over a period of six years output, the gross |
| quoted in a Nonwovens Industry article that projected | | | | product sum would come out to about $991 million |
| sums that both track the retail and medical sales of | | | | dollars, respectively. |
| adult diapers; the manufacturer itself would reach a | | | | |