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Culture

• Estimates of culture and sport are mutually exclusive.

Viewed from the product perspective

• Culture GDP at basic prices equaled $47.8 billion, contributing 3.1% to Canada's GDP in 2010.
• Culture jobs accounted for 647,300 jobs in 2010, contributing 3.7% to total employment.
• Culture output totaled $93.2 billion or 3.0% as a share of total economy.

Viewed from the industry perspective

• GDP of culture industries was $53.2 billion in 2010, contributing 3.4% to Canada's total GDP. Of this, culture products accounted for $40.7 billion and other products (i.e., non-culture products) $12.5 billion.
• Culture industries accounted for 703,900 jobs, a 4.0% share of jobs in the total economy.
• Culture industries accounted for 3.2% ($99.3 billion) of the total production in Canada.

Sport

Viewed from the product perspective

• Sport GDP equaled $4.5 billion, contributing 0.3% to Canada's economy in 2010.
• Sport output totaled $7.2 billion or 0.2%, as a share of total economy.
• Sport contributed 93,500 jobs (0.5%) to total employment in Canada.

Viewed from the industry perspective

• GDP of sport industries was $5.2 billion in 2010, contributing 0.3% to Canada's total GDP. Of this, 85.4% is attributable to the production of sport products within the sport industries.
• Sport industries contributed $8.3 billion of the total production in Canada.
• Sport industries accounted for 105,200 jobs, 0.6% share of total economy.