The Creative Economy Outlook 2024 underscores the pivotal role that creative industries play in trade and economic growth. UNCTAD’s global survey reveals the varied economic contributions of the creative economy across different countries, ranging from 0.5% to 7.3% of GDP and employing between 0.5% to 12.5% of the workforce.

The Creative Economy Report 2008 is the first study to present the United Nations perspective on this emerging topic.

UNCTAD's Creative Economy Programme generates economic information through a trade lens to understand trends and promote a data-led understa