Study of movie production worldwide

The UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) has just conducted a survey to determine how many feature length films were produced in the world in 2006. The countries that produced the most films were:

• India 1,091
• Nigeria 872
• United States 485

Eight other countries produced more than 100 films each:

• Japan 417
• China 330
• France 203
• Germany 174
• Spain 150
• Italy 116
• South Korea 110
• the United Kingdom 104

36% of films produced worldwide in 2006 were shot in English.

U.S. films continue to dominate admissions globally. Thus, all of the top ten films seen in Australia, Bulgaria Canada, Costa Rica, Namibia, Romania, and Slovenia were made in the U.S.

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