Most industries now face significant ramifications due to the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic slowdowns. However, not every industry has slid into a tailspin. The role-playing games market, for example, is expected to see 9.22% year-on-year growth up to 2023, according to a new report by The Business Research Company. COVID-19 has had both positive and negative effects on this market.

The global respiratory masks (N95 respirators, surgical masks, and others) market will grow from 14,600 million units in 2019 to 33,360.9 million units in 2023 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.9%, according the Respiratory Masks Global Market Opportunities And Strategies To 2030 report by The Business Research Company.

Organ-on-chips (OOCs) are small plastic devices with biocompatible microfluid chambers containing multiple live human cells in a 3D culture that stimulate key physiological functions of body organs. The organ-on-chip market has grown 70.5% since 2015, reaching nearly $41.6 million in 2019, according to a report by The Business Research Company.

According to The Business Research Company, the global gambling market is expected to reach a value of around $565.4 billion, growing at an annual rate of 5.9% through 2022.

The global supercapacitor/ultracapacitor market is expected to grow from $1.2 billion in 2018 to $4.6 billion in 2023 at an annual growth rate of 30.0%, according to a report by The Business Research Company.

The global amusement parks and arcades market will grow at a growth rate of around 9% to nearly $87.2 billion by 2022, according to a recent report by The Business Research Company.

The global sports market will rise at an annual growth rate of around 6% to nearly $614 billion by 2022, the report Sports Global Market Opportunities and Strategies from The Business Research Company shows.

During the forecast period, the growing popularity of esports events is expected to drive the global sports market. eSports, or competitive video gaming, is a multiplayer video game played competitively for spectators, typically by professional gamers.

Wire and cable companies manufacture insulated fiber optic cables — which are network cables containing strands of glass fibers inside an insulated case — and coaxial cables and other insulated nonferrous wires, which are copper and aluminum wires used by industries such as energy, automotive, telecoms and others.

Read on to learn more about this vast, complex global industry, with data and analysis from a recent report by The Business Research Company.

The global patient monitoring devices market is expected to grow from $22.4 billion in 2018 to $30.7 billion in 2022 at an annual growth rate of more than 8%.

The global market for insulin monitoring wearable medical devices is set to increase by over 20% year on year to 2022. The segment is the largest of the therapeutic wearable medical devices market, well ahead of pain management, respiratory therapy and rehabilitation devices. All these segments are, however, growing at close to 20% a year.