Economic Snapshot
Presented are the most recent statistics for the Creative Industries (UK) published by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) in February 2010. The full economic estimates can be accessed via the DCMS website.
- The Creative Industries, excluding Crafts and Design, accounted for 6.2% of Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2007.
- The Creative Industries grew by an average of 5% per annum between 1997 and 2007. This compares to an average of 3% for the whole of the economy over this period.
- Exports of services by the Creative Industries totalled £16.6 billion in 2007. This equated to 4.5% of all goods and services exported.
- Total creative employment increased from 1.6m in 1997 to nearly 2m in 2008, an average growth rate of 2% per annum, compared to 1% for the whole of the economy over this period.
- There were an estimated 157,400 businesses in the creative industries on the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) in 2008, this represents 7.3% of all companies on the IDBR
- Software, computer games and electronic publishing make the biggest contribution to GVA of the creative industries, at 2.9% in 2007. They also:
- make up a large number of total creative firms: 75,000
- contribute 33% of creative exports
- grew at 9% between 1997 and 2007
