The IFR Statistical Department provides data for two annual robotics studies:

World Robotics - Industrial Robots:

This unique report provides global statistics on industrial robots in standardized tables and enables national comparisons to be made. It presents statistical data for around 40 countries broken down into areas of application, customer industries, types of robots and other technical and economic aspects. Production, export and import data is listed for selected countries. It also offers robot density, i.e. the number of robots per 10,000 employees, as a measure for the degree of automation.

World Robotics - Service Robots:

This unique report describes marketable products, tasks, challenges and new developments by service robots application. The report includes the results of the annual IFR service robot survey* on global sales of professional and consumer service robots and an industry structure analysis including a full list of all service robot producers known to the IFR. The study is jointly prepared with the robotics experts of Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart.

Downloads with information on World Robotics 2023 - Industrial Robots and Service Robots are available under Free Downloads.

Order World Robotics:

You may order World Robotics 2023 here. If you click on purchase you will be forwarded to the VDMA online shop. Please find the License Agreement for World Robotics here.

Combination package: World Robotics Industrial Robots and Service Robots

Premium Version (extended functions)

  • downloadable PDF version of Industrial Robots and Service Robots including back issues from 2005 onwards

in addition for Industrial Robots

  • online data query of installations and operational stock 1993-2022
  • by countries
  • by applications
  • by industries
  • Excel-export of queries

EUR 2,200

Combination package: World Robotics Industrial Robots and Service Robots

Premium Version + printed copies

  • downloadable PDF version of Industrial Robots and Service Robots icluding back issues from 2005 onwards
  • printed copies

in addition for Industrial Robots

  • online data query of installations and operational stock 1993-2022 for Industrial Robots
  • by countries
  • by applications
  • by industries
  • Excel-export of queries

EUR 2,630

World Robotics Service Robots

Personalized PDF Version

Global statistics on professional/personal service robots

  • by application 2021 and 2022
  • Market analysis
  • Analysis of industry structure
  • sample data, sample composition varies each year

EUR 650

World Robotics Industrial Robots

Personalized PDF Version

about 40 country reports 2017-2022

  • by application areas
  • by industrial branches
  • by types of robots
  • and by other technical and economic variables
  • data on production, exports and imports
  • robot density
  • forecast 2023-2026

EUR 1,300

World Robotics Service Robots

Personalized PDF Version + Printed Copy

EUR 830

World Robotics Industrial Robots

Personalized PDF Version + Printed Copy

EUR 1,550

Contact IFR Statistical Department

Dr. Christopher Müller

Director IFR Statistical Department

Lyoner Str. 18
DE-60528 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 69-6603-11 91
E-Mail: statistics(at)ifr.org

Nina Kutzbach

Assistant IFR Statistical Department

Lyoner Str. 18
DE-60528 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 69-6603-1518
E-Mail: statistics(at)ifr.org