Total Revenue For Various Entertainment Industries

I remember not too long ago hearing that the video game industry had passed the movie industry in worldwide sales.   I found that very interesting.    I thought it would be interesting to find out how much is spent in the various forms of entertainment in the USA.

 Theres big money in this stuff.   Entertainment is a huge industry in the USA and worldwide.  According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers the worldwide spending on Entertainment and Media is expected to hit $2 trillion by 2011.   In the USA the spending on E&M is expected to hit $754 Billion.

Below are a list of various industries and the amount spent in each for the U.S.A.   The figures are in Billions of dollars.

Video games	$19.7
US Movie tickets	$10.0
Book sales	$23.9
Music	$10.4
Radio	$16.7
Newspapers	$37.9
Magazines	$40.0
Television	$80.0
Live theatre	$2.0
Fireworks	$0.9
Toys	$21.2
Candy	$17.0
Greeting cards	$8.0
Fabric, craft, sewing	$5.2
Internet providers	$20.0
Jewelry	$30.0
Weddings	$86.0
Bar and nightclub	$18.0
Tobacco	$40.0
Beer,Wine, Spirits	$100.0
Pornography	$13.3
Casinos	$30.7
Total Gambling	$92.3
Las Vegas Casinos	$5.5
Atlantic City	$3.9
Ski facilities	$2.0
Sport and camp equipment	$3.5
MLB	$6.2
NFL	$6.0
NBA	$3.2
Pro Sports	$19.0
Golf	$20.0
Bowling	$3.0
RV's	$20.0
Horse industry '02	$25.3
Pets	$45.4

The figures are from various sources that I found via Google searches.    The number for live theatre was from 1992 which is the only one I could find.   There is some overlap between categories, like for example the spending in bars and nightclubs would overlap with spending on beer, wine & spirits.   And the spending on MLB would be part of the spending in pro. sports.    I didn't check the accuracy of the figures so I can't say if every one of the numbers is correct.  Personally I doubt we spend $25B a year on horses, but what do I know.

I also made up a bar chart to show how the the spending figures stack up to one another graphically: