The Growing Global Market for Civil ID on the Path to Digitization

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Civil ID programs are identity management applications used by governments to verify a citizen and establish a link of trust, typically at large-scale. A civil ID (sometimes in the form of a national ID or eID) is one means of identifying citizens, permanent residents and temporary residents for the purposes of work, taxation, government benefits, health care and other government related functions. This could be for issuing official documents, managing borders, registering voters or employment background checks. Another subset of civil ID is the biometric epassport, a travel document with a computer chip.

Civil ID shipments are forecast to have grown from $618.8 million in 2018 to $732.7 million in 2023.

Where civil IDs are used, the overwhelmingly dominant industry involved is government. Types of civil ID commonly issued include driver licenses, passports, health-related documents and national ID cards.

There is some desire by national governments to combine the areas, producing an ID that incorporates a COVID-19 status statement. The document would be digital or physical, and would be accepted everywhere within nations and across borders. It is an ambitious goal given the politics of the major developed and developing economies.


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