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Feature films: Number released

Top 20 countries ranked by number of films released, 2003–2007

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All releases | Domestic releases

Australia was no. 16 in the world in 2007 in terms of total number of films released, and no. 29 in terms of the number of domestic releases.

All releases

Rank (2007)	Country	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
1	India¹	948	n.a.	n.a	n.a.	n.a.
2	Japan	622	649	731	821	810
3	US	459	562	535	667	687
4	Canada	401	409	450	612	629
5	Spain	493	517	569	573	592
6	France	513	559	550	589	573
7	Switzerland	399	420	466	476	493
8	UK	478	450	467	505	488
9	Germany	359	430	447	487	484
10	South Korea	251	268	321	345	392
11	Italy	436	369	392	385	370
12	Russian Federation	271	268	320	293	350
13	Austria	267	289	304	322	342
14	Brazil	225	300	288	337	333
15	Malaysia	240	245	248	314	328
16	Australia	268	318	329	333	317
17	Taiwan	278	280	285	290	291
18	Netherlands	n.a.	307	324	278	278
19	Portugal	n.a.	296	260	284	274
20	Mexico	267	265	274	320	260

Source: Screen Digest, June 2000, December 2001, July 2003, June 2004, June 2005, June 2006, July 2007 and July 2008.

Notes:
Countries where number of films produced were identical have been given a shared ranking.
n.a. Data not available
1. Total releases for India in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 unavailable, but domestic releases totalled 934, 1,041, 1,016 and 1,146 respectively.

Domestic releases

Rank (2007)	Country	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
1	India	750	934	1,020	1,016	1,146
2	US	320	350	354	456	477
3	Japan	287	310	356	417	407
4	France	219	238	236	242	262
5	Germany	107	121	146	163	174
6	Spain	104	120	128	142	136
7	South Korea	70	74	87	108	112
=7	Canada	76	72	83	99	112
9	Italy	113	104	98	100	110
10	UK	77	93	99	107	98
11	Argentina	46	77	65	74	92
12	Russian Federation	60	0	66	59	85
13	Brazil	40	51	47	73	78
14	Switzerland	35	40	58	65	70
15	Hong Kong	79	64	55	51	50
16	Indonesia	7	21	28	32	48
16=	Thailand	41	47	39	42	48
18	Turkey	16	0	27	34	43
18=	Mexico	28	0	25	29	43
20	Austria	20	24	29	34	42

29	Australia	23	16	27	29	26

Source: Screen Digest, June 2000, December 2001, July 2003, June 2004, June 2005, June 2006 and July 2007.

Notes:
Countries where number of films produced were identical have been given a shared ranking.
The number of domestic releases in China was not available for 2006 and 2007. The last reported figure was 90 titles in 2005 from a total of 120 of releases. For 2007, Screen Digest reported a total of 120 films released in China, of which 20 were from the US. The origin of the other films was not identified.
n.a. Data not available.

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