Throughout 2021, movie theaters across the United States and Canada sold almost 500 million tickets, up from less than 224 million tickets in the previous year – an annual increase of over 120 percent. Yet the 2021 figures corresponds to around 40 percent of the nearly 1.23 billion movie tickets sold in 2019. The box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada grew by 53 percent between 2020 and 2021.
Number of movie tickets sold in the United States and Canada from 2001 to 2021
(in millions)
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the-numbers.com. (January 17, 2022). Number of movie tickets sold in the United States and Canada from 2001 to 2021 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 20, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/187076/tickets-sold-at-the-north-american-box-office-since-2001/
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