UIS · Social Development
Total number of indoor cinemas
Total number of indoor cinemas. UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator 220174.
- Coverage
- 123 of 251 countries
- Latest data
- 2017
- Series
- 123
- Unit
- count
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07
- Indicator
- uis-220174
- Interva ID
- uis-220174
Recency
stale
data to 2017; catalog to 2025
Provenance
1 step
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
0%Latest observation is 2017; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 8 year(s) behind (stale).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%36 of 123 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 123 of the 251 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 7 observations; the earliest begins in 2005.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.
By country
Total number of indoor cinemas for each of the 123 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Albania 2014–2015
- Algeria 2016–2017
- Andorra 2005–2017
- Angola 2016–2017
- Argentina 2007–2017
- Aruba 2010–2011
- Australia 2005–2017
- Austria 2005–2017
- Azerbaijan 2005–2017
- Bahrain 2005–2013
- Bangladesh 2016–2017
- Belarus 2005–2011
- Belgium 2007–2016
- Belize 2016–2017
- Bermuda 2010–2011
- Bhutan 2010–2011
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 2007–2017
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010–2017
- Brazil 2005–2017
- Bulgaria 2005–2017
- Burkina Faso 2007–2015
- Burundi 2014–2017
- Cabo Verde 2012–2013
- Cambodia 2005–2017
- Cameroon 2005–2009
- Canada 2007–2008
- Chile 2005–2017
- China 2006–2009
- Colombia 2009–2015
- Cook Islands 2014–2015
- Costa Rica 2005–2017
- Croatia 2005–2017
- Cuba 2005–2009
- Cyprus 2005–2017
- Czechia 2007–2017
- Denmark 2005–2017
- Dominican Republic 2005–2017
- Egypt 2005–2016
- Eritrea 2012–2017
- Estonia 2005–2017
- Ethiopia 2008–2012
- Fiji 2007–2009
- Finland 2005–2017
- France 2005–2017
- Gabon 2007–2017
- Georgia 2007–2017
- Germany 2005–2017
- Greece 2012–2017
- Guyana 2007–2011
- Honduras 2012–2017
- Hungary 2005–2017
- Iceland 2005–2013
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 2007–2017
- Ireland 2005–2015
- Israel 2005–2013
- Italy 2005–2017
- Japan 2007–2015
- Kazakhstan 2007–2017
- Korea, Republic of 2007–2013
- Kyrgyzstan 2012–2017
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 2005–2017
- Latvia 2005–2017
- Lebanon 2005–2009
- Lithuania 2005–2017
- Luxembourg 2008–2013
- Macao 2005–2017
- Madagascar 2016–2017
- Malaysia 2005–2017
- Maldives 2014–2015
- Mali 2010–2011
- Malta 2007–2017
- Marshall Islands 2014–2017
- Mauritius 2005–2017
- Mexico 2005–2017
- Moldova, Republic of 2005–2017
- Mongolia 2007–2009
- Montenegro 2010–2015
- Morocco 2005–2017
- Mozambique 2007–2017
- Myanmar 2007–2015
- Namibia 2005–2006
- Netherlands 2005–2017
- New Zealand 2012–2017
- Niger 2005–2011
- Nigeria 2005–2011
- North Macedonia 2007–2015
- Norway 2005–2017
- Oman 2005–2009
- Pakistan 2007–2017
- Palau 2007–2009
- Peru 2016–2017
- Philippines 2005–2013
- Poland 2005–2017
- Portugal 2005–2017
- Puerto Rico 2014–2015
- Qatar 2007–2011
- Romania 2005–2017
- Russian Federation 2007–2017
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 2008–2009
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2005–2006
- Senegal 2012–2015
- Serbia 2007–2017
- Singapore 2005–2017
- Slovakia 2005–2017
- Slovenia 2005–2017
- South Africa 2014–2015
- South Sudan 2015–2015
- Spain 2005–2017
- Sri Lanka 2012–2013
- Suriname 2016–2017
- Sweden 2007–2016
- Switzerland 2005–2017
- Syrian Arab Republic 2010–2011
- Tajikistan 2012–2013
- Tanzania, United Republic of 2010–2011
- Togo 2012–2015
- Türkiye 2005–2013
- Ukraine 2012–2017
- United Kingdom 2005–2017
- United States 2006–2017
- Uzbekistan 2012–2017
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 2010–2017
- Viet Nam 2010–2011
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 2017 | 80 | count |
| Andorra | 2017 | 1 | count |
| Angola | 2017 | 9 | count |
| Argentina | 2017 | 240 | count |
| Australia | 2017 | 513 | count |
| Austria | 2017 | 139 | count |
| Azerbaijan | 2017 | 9 | count |
| Bangladesh | 2017 | 337 | count |
| Belize | 2017 | 2 | count |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 2017 | 19 | count |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as UIS declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UIS Data API indicator 220174; national ministries' survey returns, not named per figure by the publisher
declared by uis in indicator
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
UIS (2026). Total number of indoor cinemas. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-220174 (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
@misc{interva-uis-220174,
title = {Total number of indoor cinemas},
author = {UIS},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/uis-220174}},
note = {Interva dataset uis-220174; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
urldate = {2026-11-08}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
API access
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