Laura Carollo
Research expert covering cinema and film
Film industry in Sweden - statistics & facts
Like most Scandinavian cinema markets, Sweden struggled more than the majority of countries in Europe to bounce back during the second year of the coronavirus outbreak. In 2023, it recorded an annual growth of 11.5 percent in box office gross among European economies. Sweden had the 18th highest cinema attendance in Europe in 2022, yet the figure – about eleven million – was still significantly lower than the number of movie tickets sold in the Nordic country in 2019. The relevance of Swedish movies in those results also declined. In 2020, over 25 percent of Sweden's cinema attendance came from domestic films. Two years later, that share stood at 14.9 percent.
