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Medical devices and Wholesale and retail trade

Medical devices buys from Wholesale and retail trade; medical devices depends on wholesale and retail trade.

Medical devices (industry) and Wholesale and retail trade (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹17.3 per ₹100 · Medical devices buys from Wholesale and retail trade

Medical devices buys goods or services from Wholesale and retail trade; counted through every round of supply, ₹17.3 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹17.3 of every ₹100 of Medical devices output, all rounds
  • ₹9.3 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 2 of 5 · Wholesale and retail trade → Medical devices

1 of the enterprise types in Medical devices depend on wholesale and retail trade.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Medical distributors and group purchasing organisations: wholesale and pharmacy channels (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.