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Feature films: Number released

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

Next update August 2010

All releases | Domestic releases

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.

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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