Knowing everything about the cultural field in a summary sheet and data made available in spreadsheet format, this is the mission of the Key Figures on Culture and Communication published each year:
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Front cover of Key Figures 2025
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Economy of the cultural field, training, jobs and income, heritage, artistic creation, media and cultural industries…
THE Key figures, culture and communication statistics meet the needs for quantified information of cultural stakeholders and constitute an essential tool for thinking about the issues affecting the sector. This transversal analysis of the cultural field is based on numerous data from statistical and administrative sources.
Structured in seven large chapters, the work presents the morphology of culture (economic weight, businesses and cultural employment, etc.) and its financing, provides information on the representations and cultural practices of the French and describes the three major branches of culture: heritage, artistic creation, media and cultural industries.
This year, the book is enriched with a new sheet on the artist-authors.
Chapitres des Chiffres clés 2025
I. Économie du champ culturel
In 2024, the turnover in volume of all commercial cultural activities is stable compared to its 2023 level. The corresponding turnover in value increases
by 2%, a gain of 1.96 billion euros.
Among the different sectors of the total field, live entertainment is the one whose turnover in value is growing the most strongly in 2024 compared to 2023 (+ 10%), ahead of heritage (+ 9%).
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In 2023, all branches of the statistical field of culture – audiovisual,
live performance, books, the press, advertising agencies, architecture, visual arts, heritage and artistic and cultural education Рachieve a total production of 108.8 billion euros et g̩n̬rent an added value of 49.5 billion euros.
The first cultural branchesin terms of added value generated, are audiovisual (13.2 billion eurosor 26.6% of the total field), in front of the live show (8.6 billion euros17.4%), to advertising (5.2 billion euros10.4%) and heritage (4.8 billion euros9,7 %).
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The budget of the Ministry of Culture for 2025: 4.6 billion euros, stable in value
compared to the appropriations spent in 2023 and 2024.
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In 2024, households will consume 38.6 billion euros worth of cultural goods and servicesand for 29 billion euros of goods and services related to culture, for a total of 67.6 billion euros.
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Nearly 151,000 companies will operate in commercial cultural sectors in 2022. They represent 6% of all companies, and their employees count
for 2.7% of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees.
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France has around 289,000 cultural associations in 2018or 23% of all associations. Live performance constitutes the main activity of 44% of them, 24% devoting themselves primarily to music.
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In 2024, for the first time in more than three decades, imports of objects
art, collectibles and antiques exceed the corresponding exports in value.
The year 2024 is an atypical year: it is the first time in at least 35 years that imports exceed exports in value (difference of 87.5 million euros).
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II. Training, jobs and income
In 2023, 779,600 people in France will work in a cultural profession as their main jobor 2.7% of total employment, and 818,100 people work in
the cultural sector, or 2.9% of total employment.
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In 2022, the number of self-employed people in the cultural sectors will reach 258,600 people. Cela represents 7 % of all self-employed people in France, excluding agriculture.
The visual arts concentrate près de 40 % cultural non-employees, more than half of whom
works in the sector of specialized design activities and almost a third in the sector of photographic activities. Non-employees in the book and press sector represent 18 % of all non-employees in the cultural sectors followed by those in architecture (12 %).
À l’inverse, non-employees of heritage are few in number and represent less than 1% cultural and artistic non-employees.
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In 2024, royalties collected from the distribution of works online will represent 41% of Sacem’s collections, compared to 4% in 2014.
Neighboring rights collected in 2024 amount to 381.6 million euros, up 10% compared to the previous year in current euros; 41 % are perceived by companies
d’artistes-interpretes, 33 % by phonogram producer companies and 20 % by the
audiovisual producer companies.
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In 2023among the artist-authors having declared an artistic income, the professions
whose numbers are the largest are writers and book authors (76,750) and composers, arrangers and lyricists (65,560). These two categories alone bring together 40% of the total population.
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During the 2023-2024 academic year, the 99 higher schools under the Ministry of Culture bring together36 300 étudiantsi.e. a stable workforce compared to the previous year.
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In 2024, the salary of a full-time woman in an equivalent position is 14% lower than that of a man in the entertainment and audiovisual professions (compared to 16% in 2022 and 2023). The most marked differences are noted in phonographic publishing (24 %), in private live performance (20 %) and in cinema distribution (20 %).
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III. Geography of cultural activities
In 2025, nearly 40% of French municipalities include equipment
public reading.
2,000 active cinemas in 2025, 30% of them are located in large urban centers, 37 % in municipalities of intermediate density and 32 % in rural areas.
46,600 historical monuments are registered, classified or partially classified.
Live performance venues are more often located in urban areas (64,5 %).
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The number of international arrivals in France reached 100 million in 2024 (+ 2 million compared to 2023), and international tourist revenues amounted to 71 billion euros (+12% over one year).
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The area most represented among the festivals responding to the 2024 Barometer
DEPS is that of live performance with more than two thirds of festivals, music there
taking first place (46%).
The disciplines of theater, street arts, dance, circus and puppets form together 21 % festivals.
The other artistic fields each represent almost a tenth or less of
the entire panel: cinema and audiovisual (11 %), book and literature festivals
(8%), visual arts (4 %) and multidisciplinary festivals (10 %).
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IV. Practices, uses and consumption
Six out of ten French people went to the cinema in 2024la moitié a assisté à un spectacle
alive and two thirds have visited a monument.
Cultural outings are particularly developed among 15-24 year olds (50% visit libraries, 77% go to the cinema, 35% go to festivals, 53% visit museums, etc.).
The most qualified and executives and higher intellectual professions maintain the highest attendance rates at cultural facilities
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During the 2023-2024 school year, 98% of middle schools and 95% of high schools used the collective portion of the Culture pass to finance at least one EAC action or project while in 2022-2023, this was the case for 86% of middle schools and 89% of high schools.
The main areas of activities funded by the pass are theater (30% of activities in middle school and 34% in high school) and cinema/audiovisual (19 % et 29 %).
An average budget per activity of 650 euros have colleges et 575 euros au lycée.
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V. Heritage
3,225 diagnostic prescriptions in 2024, or 6.34% of development files
reçus.
2 225 diagnostics réalisésdont 76% by Inrap (1 695) et 24% by communities
enable (530).
749 search orders (1.47% of files) and 468 authorized searches.
The Fnap (National fund for preventive archaeology) financed 39% of the excavationspour
a total amount of 44.5 million euros.
This support is distributed between 88 % support and 12 % subsidies.
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During the 2023-2024 academic year, the higher national schools of architecture have 19 000 étudiantsdont 63% of students et 15 % d’élèves étrangers among their workforce.
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The year 2023 records notable progress in terms of electronic archivingwith a growing number of services having a digital archiving platform in production (nearly 70 departmental archive services,
compared to 60 in 2022). In total, 81 terabytes (TB) of data were
collected in 2023 for a total of nearly 349 TB retained. This procedure sometimes almost completely replaces paper collection.
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Attendance at the 1,044 museums in France open to the public, estimated at more than 73 million visitorsdisplays a progression of 14% between 2022 and 2023 and 8% between 2019 and 2023.
Of all the museums open to visitors in 2023, art museums remain the category with the most entries. The latter recorded 45.1 million entries, i.e. 62% of global attendance.
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More than 11 million visitors in the sites of the national monuments network in
2024.
Nearly 5.4 million visitors in the monuments located in the regions.
Action plan for securing the 87 state-owned cathedrals (40 millions
euros allocated by the State in 2024 for their conservation and restoration and 12 millions
euros for fire safety).
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VI. Artistic creation
In 2024, Cnap supported 325 projects for an amount of almost 1.8 million euros,
corresponding to a quarter of the requests received. These are nearly 170 artist-authors
qui ont été aidés, dont 59% women et 66% of beneficial cousins. The amount
The average aid per project is 5 538 euros.
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Nearly 230,000 live performance performances have been declared in 202465 million spectators and 2.4 billion euros in ticket revenue (SIBIL, CNM, ASTP data).
We count 9,000 dance shows in 2024, more than 58 000 concerts et 96 800 représentations de théâtre.
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Decentralized aid allocated by the Ministry of Culture to teams
choreographic works represented more than 13.4 million euros in 2024. In 2024, the
number of aid awarded is stable: 327 aides were granted, including 127 aids to
project.
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Près de 150 structures labeled and recognized by the Ministry of Culture meshent
the territories.
100.7 million euros in financial aid were awarded by the CNM in 2024.
10.3 million euros come from the new tax on music streaming.
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In 2024, the number of representatives eligible for the ASTP fee increases by one third
compared to 2023 (nearly 76,000 performances). The number of shows is près de 4 100either 7% less only in 2023. Attendance continues to increase,
(+ 8 %).Â
With more than 8.635 million seats soldla production théâtrale privée a
regained its vitality and reconnected with an audience even more present than before the crisis
sanitary.
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78 national scenes are distributed across French territory in 2025.
They welcomed more than 4.2 million spectators in 2024.
Their programming includes près de 4 700 spectacles, 11 500 représentations, 168 expositions et 5 800 films (près de 35 000 séances).
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VII. Media and cultural industries
Cinema production records its 2nd in 2024e highest level since
ten years with 309 films agréés (compared to an average of 292 since 2014).
In 2024, effective financing of French initiative films increased by 18%,
going from 4.2 to 5.0 million constant euros per film.
Average attendance of French films increases by 9% in 2024 compared to 2023. But it remains lower than its pre-crisis level, with 173,000 spectators on average per film in 2024compared to 197,000 between 2014 and 2019 and 623,000 spectators for an American film premiering exclusively in 2024).
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More than nine out of ten French people connected to the Internet in 2024 (94% of the population). The
France counts thus 48.5 million daily Internet users.
9% of the population only uses mobile networks to connect to the Internet at home.
80% of French people use a mobile phone daily in 2024or 4 points more than in 2023.
2h40 : this is the average time spent each day on the Internet (it is 4h21 for 15-24 year olds)
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According to estimates from the Leisure Software Publishers Union (Sell), the figure
business in the video game sector knows a decline of 6% in 2024 (5.7 billion euros in 2024).
This decline in 2024 (-35% of game console sales ; -12% of game sales
video) comes after a year of exceptional growth in game console sales.
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The number of copies sold decreased by 3% in 2024thus returning to a level close to that observed before the health crisis.
Second-hand books now represent one in five books sold in volume on the book market to individuals.compared to 14% in 2014.
48% of printed books purchased in 2024 were purchased in a supermarketagainst
41.5% in 2014.
38% of library users are under 15 years oldwhile this age group
ne represents 17% of the population.
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In 2024, the turnover of the recorded music sector a augmenté de8% and volume et 9% in valuereaching 1.7 billion euros.
77% of recorded music revenue now comes from streaming in 2024, compared to only 11% in 2012.
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The written press represents 8% of the added value of cultural branches in 2023,
compared to 18% in 2000.
The state maintains significant support for the press. In 2024, press publishers will have
benefit of 175.2 million euros from direct aid, destined for diffusion,
modernization and pluralism.
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In 2024, 76% of people aged 12 or over listen to the radio or consume audio content.
The radio and car radio are particularly used for news and newspapers (64 %) and for listening to music and musical broadcasts (57 %).
More than one in five listeners (24 %) also cites online music services (such as Deezer, Spotify or Apple Music) and platforms, such as YouTube, as a means of listening to musical content.
Selon Médiamétrie, 38% of 15-80 year olds listen to radio podcasts at least once a month in 2024 and 43% of 15-24 year olds.
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Selon Médiamétrie, au second semestre 2024, the smartphone becomes the most screen
widespread in homes (93% of equipped households) in front of the television (89%).
According to the Crédoc Digital Barometer, in 2024, more than two thirds French
have a TV connected to the Internet (68 %)
Line television (live programs) is used by 78% of people
équipées d’une TV connectéewhich makes it the main use.
In 2024, television advertising resources will amount to 3.52 billion euros,
an increase of 4.2% compared to 2023.
The finance bill for 2025 provides a budget of 3.972 billion euros
for public broadcasting.
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The turnover of the entire video market is estimated at 2.7 billion euros in 2024according to the National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC). The physical video sector represents 7 % of the latter in 2024, and video on demand 93 % (compared to only 25% in 2014).
Video on demand revenue increases by 9% in 2024after one
slowdown in previous years.
The dynamic of video on demand is driven by the growth of subscriptions. In
2024, 56% of people have a subscription to a video service at home
requestor 20 points more than in 2019.
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