Average cinema ticket price in Norway 2010-2020

As of 2020, the average cinema ticket price in Norway amounted to 114.9 Norwegian kroner, down from 115.4 kroner the year before. From 2010 to 2019, however, the price steadily increased in the Scandinavian country. For comparison, in 2010, cinema visitors paid on average 86.57 Norwegian kroner for a ticket.

How has the number of cinema admissions developed in Norway?

Although the ticket price in Norwegian cinemas increased in the last years, the number of moviegoers remained quite stable until 2019, amounting to roughly 11 million that year. According to another survey, three in four individuals went to the cinema in 2019, which was a growth of six percent compared to 2014. Especially younger people tended to go to the cinema. 94 percent of Norwegians aged 16 to 19 years stated to have visited movie theaters in 2019, whereas only about half of 67 to 79-year-olds consumed films in the cinema. However, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus and the following consequences, such as movie theater closures, the admission number significantly declined in 2020.

The growing Norwegian cinema market

Before the pandemic, the value of the Norwegian cinema industry increased due to the growing ticket prices and stable admission numbers. While the gross box office revenue amounted to about 954 million Norwegian kroner in 2010, it reached a value of 1.3 billion kroner in 2019. Similarly, the spending on cinema advertising grew by 8.7 percent from 2018 to 2019.