Culture

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In focus

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Film and Cinema

11.03.2024 – The final results for the film year 2023 and the first provisional data per week for 2024 in an interactive chart

(in French or German, interactive chart also in English)

 
 
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Cultural economy

10.10.2023 – The latest figures on cultural enterprises in 2021, with the value added of the cultural sector and the trends compared with previous years

(mainly in French or German)

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Libraries

16.11.2023 – Detailed Swiss Library Statistics figures for the year 2022 with the results of the new thematic module on library personnel

(in French, German or Italian)

 
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Video on demand (VoD)

06.10.2023 – The new results of the statistics on video on demand (VoD) in Switzerland for 2022, with trends compared with previous years

 

At a glance

Key figures
Evolution of cinema admissions (2022–2023)
Evolution of film views on SVoD (2021-2022)
+21%
+2%
Number of libraries accessible to public (2022) 1'480
Number of museums (2021) 1'081
Number of protected historic monuments (2016) 75'084
Proportion of the population who has been to a concert (2019)
72%
Public cultural financing (2020)
CHF 2.97 billion
Expenditures of private households for culture incl. media (2020) CHF 14.1 billion
Number of cultural enterprises (2021)
Number of cultural workers (2022)
65'369
268'000
Source: FSO

Further information

Tables

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Statistical sources and concepts

On this topic

Monuments

Historic monuments, archaeological zones and historic towns and settlements

Contact

Federal Statistical Office Section Politics, Culture and Media
Espace de l'Europe 10
2010 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
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