The Mexican economy related to the cultural sector grew by 12.6% in 2022revealed this Friday the ‘Satellite Account of the Culture of Mexico’, from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
The economic contribution of culture amounted to 815,902 million pesoswhich represented 2.9% of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP), Inegi detailed in its report.
The areas with the greatest contribution were crafts, which generated 19.3% of the cultural economy; digital content and the internet, such as access and transmission of digital content, which contributed 18.6%; and audiovisual media, such as television or cinema, with 18%.
There are also the shares of design and creative services (12.8%); cultural and natural heritage (6.7%); books, prints and press (6.4%); performing arts and shows (5.5%); training and cultural dissemination (4.9%); music and concerts (4.2%), and visual and plastic arts (3.6%).
The Inegi reported an annual increase of 2.5% in jobs in the cultural sectorwhich amounted to 1,494,745 jobs, 3.6% of the national total.
The areas that generate the greatest contribution to jobs in the cultural sector are crafts, which generated 31.4%; design and creative services contributed 14.1%; audiovisual media, 12.4% and books, prints and press, 8.3%,” Inegi stated.
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When considering the stages of the cultural cycle, the economy of the sector was made up of creation and intellectual property, with 15.9%; production, with 14.7%; transmission and dissemination, such as live shows or radio broadcasting, with 35.7%; consumption, 22.3%; preservation, 3.6%, and training, with 7.8%.
The autonomous institute highlighted that the growth of the cultural sector was above the 3.8% increase in national GDP last year.
It also reported an annual growth rate of 1.1% over the last 15 years, from 2008 to 2022.
Even so, he recalled that the cultural economy collapsed by 20% in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, and then rebounded by 8.9% in 2021.
During 2022, the cultural areas with the greatest growth were the visual and plastic arts, with 37.5%; audiovisual media, with 27.4%; and performing arts and shows, with 26%.
They were followed by books, prints and press, with 14.9%; cultural and natural heritage, with 14.6%, and design and creative services, with 10.6%, while the rest of the items rose by less than 10%.
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