Baby Food Market Demand Expected to Shoot Up in Asia-Pacific in Coming Years

Due to the growing population of working mothers, surging concerns being raised by parents over infant nutrition, falling infant mortality rate, soaring public awareness about innovative baby food products, and increasing urbanization rate and organized retail marketing activities, the global baby food market revenue is predicted to rise from $30.0 billion in 2020 to $53.9 billion by 2030. Furthermore, the market will progress at a CAGR of 6.1% from 2021 to 2030 (forecast period), as per the estimates of the market research firm, P&S Intelligence.

Baby Food Market Outlook

As working women are actively focusing on the nutritional needs of their babies, their mushrooming population all over the world is driving the sales of baby food products. As per the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in England, the share of working mothers in the total population of mothers rose from 69% in 2013 to 74% in September 2018. Additionally, as per the data released by the Catalyst, which is a non-profit organization that works with more than 800 companies across the world for accelerating women into leadership positions, in India, 20.3% of the women in the age group—15 years and older—were working in 2020.

This is credited to the growing public preference for buying baby food products via various e-commerce platforms over other distribution channels. Across the globe, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region generated the highest revenue in the baby food market in 2020 and it is predicted to be the fastest growing region during the forecast period as well. This will be because of the surging population of working women, high birth rates, soaring disposable income of people, ballooning public awareness about baby food products, and increasing research and development (R&D) activities being carried out by several baby food producing companies in the region.

Hence, the sales of baby food products are certain to shoot up in the coming years, owing to the surging population of working women, growing disposable income of people, falling infant mortality rate, and rising public awareness about infant nutrition all over the world.