WHAT IS WELLNESS? Wellness is a modern word with ancient roots. The key tenets of wellness as both preventive and holistic can be traced back to ancient civilizations from the East (India, China) to the West (Greece, Rome). In 19th-century Europe and the United States, a variety of intellectual, religious and medical movements developed in parallel with conventional medicine. With their focus ...
Mental Wellness Defined The Global Wellness Institute defines mental wellness as an internal resource that helps us think, feel, connect and function; it is an active process that helps us to build resilience, grow and flourish. Mental wellness is a dynamic, renewable and positive resource; an active process that requires initiative and conscious action; and an internal experience that ...
The wellness economy is a major force in the global economy, larger in size than the green economy, IT, tourism, and sports. The global wellness economy has consistently grown faster than the global economy. Looking over the long term, wellness grew by 6.5% annually from 2013-2024, while global GDP grew by 3.2% annually.
Global Wellness Economy: Country Rankings (Data for 2019-2024) A companion to GWI’s 2025 Global Wellness Economy Monitor, this report is the only place to find detailed regional and country-level data on the size of the wellness industry. It ranks 145 countries by the size of their wellness economies, compares wellness to the size of each country’s overall economy, examines per capita ...
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) today released the Global Wellness Economy Monitor 2025, the only research that provides authoritative, in-depth data and insights on the global wellness market and each of its 11 sectors. The story emerging from the data: continued, accelerating growth.