The United States led the global ranking in 2021 with around ** employees in the video game sector. Canada and the United Kingdom occupied the second and third positions, respectively. However, in both cases, there was a difference of more than 100,000 workers compared to the U.S. video game industry. Meanwhile, Spanish studios employed approximately people, placing them in seventh place, ahead of countries such as Italy and the Netherlands.
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