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Next update September 2010

Australia has been no. 11 in the world since 2002 in terms of total box office.

Rank (2008)	Country	Box office revenue (US$ million)
Rank (2008)	Country	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
1	US	9,539.0	8,999.0	9,487.8	8,844.6	8,987.1
2	Japan	1,950.2	1,799.7	1,741.5	1,685.1	1,884.5
3	India	707.1	1,190.0	1,416.2	1,736.3	1,856.2
4	France	1,410.7	1,273.7	1,407.4	1,448.5	1,677.9
5	UK	1,410.7	1,423.0	1,404.9	1,643.6	1,584.5
6	Germany	1,110.6	927.5	1,023.1	1,039.2	1,170.3
7	Spain	860.2	780.9	799.2	882.6	912.0
8	South Korea	675.8	888.9	1,061.3	1,076.5	896.8
9	Italy	718.3	667.9	686.4	846.1	874.3
10	Canada	699.1	686.2	732.8	799.0	863.0
11	Australia	668.2	623.5	653.0	751.3	807.1
12	Russian Federation	267.2	346.3	470.8	548.1	800.9
13	Mexico	483.6	477.1	557.3	620.6	643.6
14	China	181.2	244.1	316.5	433.9	606.7
15	Brazil	262.1	264.5	319.4	366.2	397.0
16	Netherlands	188.2	166.8	195.9	219.0	243.1
17	Turkey	n.a	95.3	128.1	132.7	221.0
18	Poland	n.a.	95.4	148.1	173.9	207.9
19	Switzerland	203.9	177.9	195.6	172.6	198.6
20	Sweden	173.2	150.3	162.2	174.5	189.8

Source: Screen Digest, September 2005, October 2006, October 2007, September 2008 and September 2009.

Notes:
n.a. Not available