Disneyland theme park (California) attendance 2009-2022

In 2022, the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California welcomed more than 16.88 million visitors in total. Compared to the previous year, Disneyland recorded almost 99 percent more visitors in 2022.

Disney Theme Parks - additional information

The Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California was the first amusement park to be constructed by Disney. Today, Disney parks and resorts can be found in Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo, in addition to an international Disney cruise line. The Disney parks and resorts come together under the umbrella company Walt Disney Attractions. Focusing on the change in attendance at some of the leading amusement and theme parks worldwide, Disney parks were among the most successful parks at achieving strong growth in visitor numbers in 2021.

Amusement and theme park industry

In addition to Disney parks, several other park operators compete to provide recreational attractions globally. In 2021, Disney led the ranking of most revenue generating theme park company worldwide, earning a total of 16.6 billion U.S. dollars that year. For comparison, second placed OCT Limited, which operates OCT Happy Valley, made 10.7 billion U.S. dollars from their parks in the same year. Overall, the global amusement park industry was valued at nearly 52 billion U.S. dollars in 2021.