Music Advocacy Facts

The 1998 study by the Arts Council of England found that out of the countries studied* :
• the U.S. spent £6** per person - the LEAST amount of money - on direct public spending on arts.
• Germany, comparable to the U.S. in terms of per capita gross domestic product (GDP), spent £85** per person on public arts spending.
• Ireland, with less than half the per capita GDP of the U.S., still had higher public spending on the arts than the U.S. at £9** per person.
• Finland (with a smaller per capita GDP than the United States, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, France, and Sweden) spent £91** per person on direct public spending on arts.

*The countries included in the study were: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
**British sterling pounds