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Australia was no. 33 in the world in 2007 in terms of the number of feature films produced, down from no. 29 in 2006.

Rank (2007)	Country	Number of feature films produced¹
Rank (2007)	Country	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
1	India	877	934	1041	1016	1164
2	US	593	611	699	485	453
3	Japan	287	310	356	417	407
4	China	140	212	260	330	402
5	France	212	203	240	203	228
6	Russian Federation	68	120	160	200	200
7	Spain	110	133	142	150	172
8	South Korea	80	82	87	110	124
9	Germany	80	87	103	122	122
10	Italy	117	134	98	116	121
11	Brazil	50	81	90	142	117
=11	UK	175	132	131	134	117
13	Canada	151	133	122	97	111
14	Iran	30	28	26	77	105
15	Argentina	67	54	60	60	80
16	Indonesia	12	31	50	60	77
17	Switzerland	35	44	47	50	76
18	Mexico	36	54	53	65	70
19	Thailand	50	46	39	42	55
20	Hong Kong	77	64	55	51	50
21	Turkey	15	27	30	39	43
22	Egypt	10	24	23	40	42
23	Hungary	21	21	26	28	41
24	Belgium	12	23	28	30	37
25	Austria	17	24	24	32	32
26	Poland	20	17	29	37	31
27	Philippines	90	53	58	56	30
=27	Netherlands	29	24	24	29	30
=27	Taiwan	14	24	17	24	30
30	Sweden	27	40	54	51	28
=30	Malaysia	16	22	20	28	28
32	Denmark	24	26	41	20	26
33	Australia	18	16	25	28	24
34	Norway	18	22	19	19	22
35	Nepal	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	12	21
36	Greece	22	22	16	21	20
37	Czech Rep	16	16	20	22	18
=37	Israel	14	13	12	16	18
=37	Finland	10	15	13	14	18
40	Serbia	n.a.	14	n.a.	n.a.	17
41	Pakistan	40	25	18	23	16
42	Portugal	17	15	16	19	15
=42	South Africa	7	15	11	10	15
44	Colombia	6	7	14	14	14
=44	Ireland	10	12	12	12	14
46	Bulgaria	12	7	4	7	13
47	Vietnam	10	15	12	12	12
=47	New Zealand	9	4	5	6	12
49	Singapore	9	7	8	10	11
50	Romania	17	21	20	18	10
=50	Chile	7	14	15	16	10
=50	Morocco	8	10	12	15	10
=50	Estonia	3	4	4	8	10
=50	Ukraine	7	n.a.	n.a.	4	10
=50	Slovakia	5	2	5	3	10

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.
1. Includes co-productions.
n.a. Data not available.