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Top 20 countries ranked by number of films released, 2004–2008

Next update August 2010


Australia was no. 18 in the world in 2008 in terms of total number of films released, and no. 28 in terms of the number of domestic releases.

All releases

Rank (2008) Country 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
1 India n.a. n.a. 1,352 1,507 1,647
2 Japan 649 731 821 810 810
3 Belgium 666 700 694 747 745
4 Canada 409 450 612 629 624
5 US 562 535 588 584 606
6 France 559 550 589 573 555
7 UK 450 467 505 525 527
8 Spain 517 569 573 592 516
9 Switzerland 420 466 476 493 503
10 Germany 430 447 487 484 471
11 South Korea 268 321 345 392 379
12 Italy 369 392 385 370 376
13 Mexico 265 274 320 260 329
13= Thailand 350 353 353 n.a. 329
15 Brazil 300 288 337 333 328
16 Austria 289 304 322 342 312
17 Malaysia 245 248 314 328 303
18 Australia 318 329 333 317 301
19 Netherlands 307 324 278 292 296
20 Taiwan 280 285 290 291 292

Source: Screen Digest, June 2005, June 2006, July 2007, July 2008 and July 2009.

Notes:
Countries where number of films produced were identical have been given a shared ranking.
n.a. Data not available.

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Domestic releases

Rank (2008) Country 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
1 India 934 1,020 1,016 1,146 1,325
2 US 350 354 455 470 463
3 Japan 310 356 417 407 418
4 France 238 236 242 262 240
5 Germany 121 146 163 174 185
6 Spain 120 128 142 136 137
7 Italy 74 87 100 110 130
8 Canada 72 83 99 112 122
9 UK 104 98 107 98 111
10 South Korea 93 99 108 112 108
11 Indonesia 77 65 32 48 90
12 Brazil 0 66 73 78 82
13 Russian Federation 51 47 59 85 78
14 Switzerland 40 58 65 70 76
15 Argentina 64 55 74 92 73
16 Belgium 21 28 62 79 59
17 Thailand 47 39 42 48 54
18 Hong Kong 0 27 51 50 53
19 Mexico 0 25 29 43 46
20 Turkey 24 29 34 43 44
 
28 Australia 16 27 28 26 33

Source: Screen Digest, June 2005, June 2006, July 2007, July 2008 and July 2009.

Notes:
Countries where number of films produced were identical have been given a shared ranking.
The number of domestic releases in China was not available for 2006, 2007 and 2008. The last reported figure was 90 titles in 2005 from a total of 120 of releases. For 2008, Screen Digest reported a total of 120 films released in China, of which 21 were from the US. The origin of the other films was not identified.
n.a. Data not available.

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