Top 20 countries
by number of cinema admissions, 2004–2008
Next update September 2010
In 2008, Australia ranked no. 15 in the
world in terms of total number of cinema admissions, same as the previous
two years and down one place from no. 14 in 2005.
Rank
(2008)
Country
Admissions
(millions)
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
1
India
3,591.0
3,770.0
3,997.0
3,290.0
3,330.3
2
US
1,365.8
1,403.0
1,291.4
1,296.2
1,248.2
3
China
137.5
157.2
176.2
195.8
209.8
4
France
195.3
175.7
188.7
177.5
188.8
5
Mexico
165.0
149.0
165.5
177.8
182.4
6
UK
171.3
164.6
156.6
162.5
164.2
7
Japan
170.1
160.5
164.3
163.2
160.5
8
South Korea
135.2
140.3
163.9
157.5
150.8
9
Germany
156.7
125.3
136.7
125.4
129.4
10
Russian Federation
76.5
81.0
89.5
106.6
118.5
11
Spain
143.9
126.0
121.7
116.9
107.8
11=
Canada
118.2
104.9
103.0
105.6
107.8
13
Italy
97.9
90.5
92.1
103.5
99.3
14
Brazil
114.7
89.7
90.3
89.3
89.1
15
Australia
91.5
82.2
83.6
84.7
84.6
16
Philippines
63.7
63.7
62.9
64.2
65.4
17
Indonesia
42.0
43.3
46.2
48.1
50.2
18
Malaysia
16.7
25.9
27.2
33.6
43.9
19
Turkey
29.7
27.6
34.8
31.2
36.2
20
Argentina
42.0
37.6
37.0
34.5
34.2
Source: Screen Digest, September 2005 and
October 2006, and, for 2006 to 2008, unpublished data from the Cinema
Intelligence Service.
