But more and more smaller cultural enterprises
The number of cultural enterprises has risen to over 67,000 in 2022 and the number of employees in the cultural sector to almost 241,000.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, both figures exceed those of 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic, and are even new highs since 2011. At 16.3 billion, the gross value added of the cultural sector is also higher than before the pandemic. However, cultural enterprises are tending to become smaller and smaller: the number of employees and full-time equivalents per company are falling in a multi-year comparison. These are some of the results of the cultural industries statistics from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
In 2022, the cultural sector comprised 67,313 companies and 69,729 workplaces (branches). Compared to the economy as a whole, the cultural sector accounted for around 10.6% of companies and 9.8% of workplaces. The vast majority of cultural enterprises (around 99%) have only one workplace.
