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Cinema: Total admissions

Top 20 countries by number of cinema admissions, 1996 and 2002–2006

In 2006, Australia ranked no. 15 in the world in terms of total number of cinema admissions, down one place from no. 14 the previous year.

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Rank (2006)	Country	Admissions (millions)
Rank (2006)	Country	1996	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
1	India	3,380.0	3,200.0	3,420.0	3,591.0	3,770.0	3,997.0
2	US	1,338.6	1,639.0	1,570.0	1,536.0	1,403.0	1,448.5
3	France	136.7	184.4	174.1	195.3	175.7	188.7
4	China	140.0	110.0	117.0	137.5	157.2	176.2
5	Mexico	73.0	152.0	139.0	165.0	149.0	165.5
6	Japan	119.6	160.8	162.3	170.1	160.5	164.3
7	South Korea	42.3	105.1	113.3	132.0	140.3	163.9
8	UK	125.1	175.9	167.2	171.3	164.6	156.6
9	Germany	132.9	163.9	149.0	156.7	125.3	136.7
10	Spain	104.3	140.7	137.4	143.9	126.0	121.7
11	Canada	91.8	127.9	124.6	118.2	104.9	103.0
12	Italy	95.9	89.2	87.5	97.9	90.5	92.1
13	Brazil	96.0	90.9	102.9	114.7	89.7	90.3
14	Russian Federation	49.8	65.0	72.0	76.5	81.0	89.5
15	Australia	74.0	92.5	89.8	91.5	82.2	83.6
16	Philippines	131.0	78.0	68.8	63.7	63.7	62.9
17	Indonesia	180.0	40.0	40.0	42.0	43.3	46.2
18	Argentina	21.4	31.8	33.3	42.0	37.6	37.0
19	Thailand	13.0	28.8	32.0	35.8	32.5	34.8
20	Turkey	27.0	23.6	24.5	29.7	27.6	32.7

Source: Screen Digest, September 2000, October 2001, September 2002, October 2003, September 2004, September 2005, October 2006 and October 2007.