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Creative Industries Info from www.gov.uk. By Adin Holland. Contribution to the economy. GVA- The creative industries accounted for 2.89% of Gross value added (GVA) in the UK in 2009. This is an increase of 0.07% ( from 2.82% in 2008)
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Creative IndustriesInfo from www.gov.uk By Adin Holland
Contribution to the economy • GVA- The creative industries accounted for 2.89% of Gross value added (GVA) in the UK in 2009. • This is an increase of 0.07% ( from 2.82% in 2008) • In absolute terms the GVA reduced by 1% from 2008 (£36.6 billion to £36.3 billion) • Publishing contributes the most to the UK’s GVA, accounting for 0.92% in 2009.
Export of services • The creative industries accounted for 10.6% of the UK’s exports in 2009, which is quite impressive. • Publishing and TV & Radio had the highest exports of services with 3.1% and 2.6% of the UK’s exports respectively.
Employment • 1.50 million people were employed in either the creative industries or in a creative role in another industry, this equals to 5.14% of UK employment. It has increased from 1.44 million and 4.99% of UK employment since 2008. • Music & visual and performing arts employ the most people in the creative industries in 2009 (300,000, 1% of the UK)
Businesses • In 2011 there was 106,700 creative enterprises (5.13% of the UK) and 108,820 (4.27% of the UK) creative local units. • This is an increase in both enterprises (4.9% to 5.1%) and local units (4.2% to 4.3%) from 2009. • Once again Music & Visual and performing arts account for the largest contribution to the number of businesses (1.46 of the UK enterprises and 1.21% of the UK for local units in 2011).
Conclusion • From these facts and figures you can see that the creative industries is quite strong and it is very important to the UK economy and just the UK in general