Lionel Sujay Vailshery
Research expert covering cloud computing and emerging tech industries
Biometric technologies - statistics & Facts
Once only seen in spy movies, fingerprint mapping, facial recognition, and retina scans have now entered our everyday lives and fall under the umbrella of biometric technologies. Biometrics refers to the measurement and analysis of people's unique physical characteristics and has been used to identify individuals for over two centuries. More recently, it gave rise to biometric authentication as a form of identification and access control, a market that has been growing ever since. In 2023, the digital identity solutions market - of which biometric technology is a major component 鈥 was valued at 34.5 billion U.S. dollars and is forecast to continue its increase in the coming years.
