Zerodha’s Kamath Upbeat On Preventive Healthcare Mkt

New Delhi: India’s preventive healthcare market has doubled in size in the past four years, with ‘wellness and fitness’ alone contributing $98 billion and occupying a major 51 per cent of the total market size, according to Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder at Zerodha.

Preventive healthcare also has a massive opportunity to make money with the projected size of the market to hit $197 billion, which is around Rs 8 lakh crore by 2025.

“Everything health-related in the last decade felt like it was too early. This seems to be changing now, with health and longevity becoming mainstream in urban India,” Kamath posted on X social media platform.

According to the data shared in the post, live fitness content consumption has increased as much as 1,300 per cent since Covid pandemic times, which, completely transformed the world’s view on health.

It is this growing consciousness that India is going to benefit from. The post further substantiated the potential growth of the fitness industry by comparing the under penetration of wearables and gym goers in India with the world.