There are over 2 million cultural companies in the EU, how many are in Bulgaria
A country who is famous for history that extends millennia back in time, but with the least registered business for cultural events and activity. This is how Bulgaria looks in Eurostat data from 2022, which reported over 2 million companies and associations in the European Union, which created € 199 billion added value in Europe’s economy.
The statistics put the country alongside Slovakia, but with a million less population.
The number of residents, in fact, is not the determining factor, because Slovenia, for example, with three times less population than Bulgaria has three legal entities for culture. The rich culture of one side also does not automatically lead to more business that develops it and tells of history – Greece has a lower indicator than Romania.
| If a total of 6.3% of the economy (industry, construction and market services) in the EU are in the EU, then in Bulgaria and Slovakia, this share is twice smaller – 3.1%. |
The highest share of this segment in national business economies is registered in the Netherlands (11%) and Sweden (10.8%), followed by Slovenia and Lithuania (both 8.9%) and Austria (8.1%). In contrast, cultural enterprises represent less than 5%of all enterprises in 6 EU countries: Bulgaria and Slovakia (both 3.1%), Poland (4.3%), Greece (4.7%) and Denmark and Romania (both 4.8%).
Data cover a wide range of activities: book publishing and trade in printed, music and video works, entertainment shows, jewelry and musical instruments, publishing newspapers and magazines, creation of films and video games, architectural and design bureaus, phonograph and translation services, mosses, libraries, libraries
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With all this, 12 389 companies, publishing houses, companies were involved in Bulgaria three years ago. They have created an added value of EUR 708 million (about BGN 1.4 billion in an economy for nearly BGN 100 billion) or a share of 1.4%. The net turnover of the sector is just under 2 billion euros, and although at first glance it seems a decent amount, it is 0.8% of the total net turnover of the Bulgarian economy.
The highest added value generated by cultural enterprises as a share of the national business economy is in Cyprus (5.4%) and Finland (2.8%). The highest share of the turnover of cultural enterprises is in Cyprus (5.4%), followed by France and Sweden (both 1.8%).
Just over half of all EU cultural enterprises (51.5%) are concentrated in 4 EU countries: France (17.5%), Italy (12.5%), the Netherlands (12%) and Spain (9.4%).
| In 2022, Germany reached the highest share of added value generated by cultural enterprises in the EU. At about 8% (175.5 thousand) of all EU -registered cultural companies, the Germans respect 26.4% of the value added to the EU sector. Followed by France (17.4%, but with over 355 thousand companies) and Italy (11.5% and 253 thousand companies). Together, these three countries represent 55.3% of the total added value. The same three countries are 53.9% of the EU’s cultural sector turnover. |
Over a quarter of the EU cultural endeavors were engaged in creative activities, arts and entertainment (27.4%). In general, in the EU 2% of the added value comes from the culture, but smaller sectors create a lot of added value:
- Publishing books; newspapers; magazines and periodicals; Computer Games (14.9%)
- Architectural activities (14.6%)
- Publishing movies and television, sound recordings and music; Rental of video tapes and discs (14.2%)
- Printing and reproduction of recorded media; Production of musical instruments and jewelry (13.5%).
State level data show that in 2022:
- Creative, arts and entertainment activities had the largest share of cultural enterprises in 16 EU countries, led by Swedenwhere 45.1% of all cultural enterprises were active in this area.
- Architectural activities represent the largest group of business activities in the cultural sector in 9 EU countries led by Belgiumwhere there are 33.4% of all cultural enterprises.
- With specialized design activities, they are most involved in Croatia (22.8%) and Denmark (22.1%).
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Among all types of cultural activities, programming and broadcasting, the work of news agencies stands out with the economic value generated far beyond the proportional number of registered companies. With only 0.4% of the total number of cultural enterprises, these activities generate 7.9% of the total added value of the EU sector (EUR 15.8 billion).
| The same is observed in Bulgaria – with a share of about 2% of content programming and broadcasting companies and news agencies, they generate over 20% of the added value in cultural activity. |
In contrast, cultural education in the EU is represented by 3.8% of enterprises in the sector, but they create only 0.8% (1.6 billion euros) of the total added value of the cultural sector. (there is no specific data for Bulgaria).
A detailed national breakdown in wide groups according to the generated value in the cultural sector shows:
- in 4 EU countries led by Cyprus (75.7%), it comes from publishing (including books; newspapers; magazines and periodicals; computer games).
- in Luxembourg (37.1%), Austria (24.9%) and Belgium (19.4%) The largest share is attributed to architectural activities.
- in France (20.7%) and Spain (16.4%) movies and television, music; With the highest share in the added value are the activities of renting videos and discs.
- in Denmark (21.3%) and Netherlands (20.3%) The biggest contribution comes from creative activities, arts and entertainment.
The analysis of the breakdown by size shows the importance of small and medium -sized enterprises (SMEs) in the sector. In 2022, in the EU, 78% of people working in creativity, art and entertainment enterprises were employed in micro -enterprises (under 10 people), 11.6% in small businesses and 6.5% in medium -sized enterprises. Only 3.9% of these specialists were hired in large enterprises and these are media employees (67.3% of the employees in this professional group). Micro companies totally dominate photographic activities (89.5%), specialized design activities (82.4%), creative, artistic and entertainment activities (78.0%) and written and oral translation activities (74.1%).
