Culture funding

Public expenditure on culture according to LIKUS
2020
2 928.4 million Euros
Gone up +6.2 % compared to 2019
Public expenditure on culture as a percentage of GDP
2020
0.77 %
Gone up +0.8 % compared to 2019
Public expenditure on culture per capita
2020
328 Euros
Gone up +5.8 % compared to 2019

Cultural expenditure statistics use a scheme that was developed in the mid-1990s specifically to meet the requirements of cultural reporting in a federal system. At the heart of the LIKUS (Länderinitiative Kulturstatistik - federal province initiative on cultural statistics) approach is a sector-based grid that delimits fields relevant to cultural policy in a comprehensible manner, thereby enabling the attribution of expenditure items from all levels of public administration under the heading of "cultural funding" - irrespective of the particular practices of cultural promotion or differences in legal and administrative standardisation.

The data basis is the closed accounts of the Federal Government, the federal provinces and the municipalities. The statistics are compiled annually.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Closed accounts of government budgets. Compiled on 28th July 2022.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Closed accounts of government budgets, Arts and culture report of the federal government. Compiled on 28th July 2022.

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