Age profile of cinema audiences

AGE PROFILE OF CINEMA-GOERS COMPARED TO THE AUSTRALIAN POPULATION^{^}, 1997–2023

There has been little variation in cinema-goers as a proportion of their age groups in over a decade. Younger people are over-represented among cinema audiences when compared with their proportion of the Australian population, while people aged 50 and over are under-represented. Similarly, there has been little change in the various age groups as a proportion of the Australian population. The greatest change has been in the 50 years and over group, which comprised 32 per cent of cinema-goers and 39 per cent of the population in 2023, up 9 and 7 percentage points respectively since 1997.