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INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS

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Top 50 countries ranked by number of feature films produced, 1995–2006

Australia was no. 29 in the world in 2006 in terms of the number of feature films produced, up from no. 32 in 2005.

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Rank (2006)	Country	Number of feature films produced¹
Rank (2006)	Country	1996	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
1	India	649	1200	877	934	1,041	1,091
2	US	735	543	593	611	699	480
3	Japan	278	293	287	310	356	417
4	China	110	100	140	212	260	330
5	France	134	200	212	203	240	203
6	Russian Federation; Commonwealth of Independent States	21	62	68	120	160	200
7	Spain	91	137	110	133	142	150
8	Brazil	40	48	50	81	90	142
9	UK	111	119	175	132	131	134
10	Germany	64	116	80	87	103	122
11	Italy	99	130	117	134	98	116
12	South Korea	65	78	80	82	87	110
13	Bangladesh	n.a.	98	96	90	102	99
14	Iran	n.a.	33	30	28	26	77
15	Canada	53	66	151	133	122	76
16	Mexico	3	14	36	54	53	65
17	Argentina	14	34	67	54	60	60
=17	Indonesia	38	17	12	31	50	60
19	Philippines	180	97	90	53	40	56
20	Hong Kong	116	92	77	64	55	51
=20	Sweden	18	21	27	40	54	51
22	Switzerland	41	37	35	44	47	50
23	Thailand	40	30	50	46	39	42
24	Egypt	15	8	10	24	23	40
25	Turkey	n.a.	9	15	27	30	39
26	Poland	17	13	20	17	29	37
27	Austria	15	16	17	24	24	32
28	Netherlands	16	28	29	24	24	29
29	Australia	33	27	18	21	25	28
=29	Hungary	20	33	21	21	26	28
=29	Malaysia	16	11	16	22	20	28
32	Taiwan	17	21	14	24	17	24
33	Pakistan	n.a.	48	40	25	18	23
34	Czech Rep	20	14	16	16	20	22
35	Greece	20	18	22	22	16	21
36	Denmark	21	19	24	26	41	20
=36	Romania	9	9	17	21	20	20
38	Belgium	8	11	12	23	28	19
=38	Norway	9	14	18	22	19	19
=38	Portugal	8	13	17	15	16	19
41	Chile	1	7	7	14	15	16
=41	Israel	12	14	14	13	12	16
43	Morocco	3	6	8	10	12	15
44	Colombia	3	n.a.	6	7	14	14
=44	Finland	10	11	10	15	13	14
46	Ireland	18	9	10	12	12	12
=46	Vietnam	n.a.	10	10	15	12	12
48	Singapore	6	7	9	7	8	10
=48	South Africa	13	n.a.	7	15	11	10
50	Puerto Rico	0	n.a.	1	3	7	9
=50	Venuzuela	7	n.a.	3	3	5	9

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

Notes:
Countries where numbers of films produced were identical have been given a shared ranking.
1. Includes co-productions.
n.a. Data not available.