including people aged 16 or above, employed or self-employed, people on leave, on government-supported training and employment programs, and doing unpaid family work
Supplementary notes
Data prior to 2012 was retrieved from earlier releases.
Numbers have been rounded.
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Employment in the film industry in the UK 2007-2021, by segment
In 2021, the United Kingdom's film industry employed approximately *** thousand people, of which more than three-quarters – around ** thousand – worked in movie production and distribution. The film exhibition and distribution segments accounted for ** thousand and thousand of the sector's workforce.
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