Complementary Data, Information and Statistics

Complementary Data, Information and Statistics

Complementary data, information and statistics

  1. Economy and finance:

1.1 Total flows of cultural goods and services:

Number of Exports, imports
in cultural goods and services / code / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
1 / Books and booklets / 49011000 / 183770 / 82120 / 3888
2 / Music printed or in manuscript / 49040000 / 11
3 / Newspaper and periodicals / 49029000 / 100
4 / Original sculptures and statuary / 97030000 / 10 / 4 / 137
5 / Collages and similar decorative plaques / 97019000 / 25 / 130
6 / Paintings, drawings and pastels / 97011000 / 443
7 / Games / 95030000 / 15355 / 1912 / 1108
8 / Tables for games, articles for funfair / 95049000 / 803 / 7 / 10
9 / Festivals and entertainment articles / 95059000 / 12774 / 10978 / 23029

Source: “Statistical information on goods of Foreign Trade 2014” General Customs Agency

1.1.a Cultural goods - no specific data

1.1. b Cultural services –N\ A

1.2. Contribution of cultural activities to Gross Domestic Product \ GDP\

(a) Total GDP

Year / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Total GDP \ output \ In thousand USD / 12,276.31 / 15,067.31 / 13,192.96 / 14,000.28

Source: National Statistical Committee \

(b) Share of cultural activities in GDP

Year / 2012 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016
Share of cultural activities
\in percentage \ / 0.5 / 0.3 / 0.3

Source: Ministry of Education, culture and science

1.3 Government expenditure on culture

Year / 2012 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016
Total government expenditure
\ in thousand USD \ / 4,409.15 / 4,040.50 / 3,929.30 / 3,621.60
Share of culture in government expenditure \ percentage \ / 1,3 / 1,0

Source: Ministry of Education, culture and science

  1. Books

a) Number of published titles

2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Published books and booklets, thous.pcs / 10417.2 / 26338.6 / 22156.6 / 22400.0
Published newspapers, thous.pcs / 7287.4 / 11312.6 / 13321.4 / 17762.3
Published magazines, journals, thous.pcs / 225.3 / 449.7 / 3869.4 / 3331.5

Source: National Statistical Committee \

b) Number of publishing companies

Number of publishing companies / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Small size / 35
Medium size / 22
Large size / 8
Total / 65

Source: Association of Mongolian publishers

Number of books published and registered with writer’s copyrights

2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Published books with
ISBN / 1500 / 2149 / 2680 / 2783

Source: Association of Mongolian publishers

c) Bookshops and sales: No full statistical information regarding the number of bookshops and sales

d) Translation flows :

  1. Music

(a) Production; number of albums produced

Number of albums produced / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Physical format / 51334 / 40780 / 39786 / 24915
Digital format / 199
Total / 25114

Source : HiFi CD shop

(b) Sales: total number of recorded music sale

No full statistical data available

  1. Media

(a) Broadcasting audience and share

Programme type / Audience share / Type of ownership / Type of access
2013 / 2014 / 2015
MNB / 9.9 / 7.8 / 9.5 / Public / free
TV5 / 8.2 / 6.9 / --- / Private / free
TV9 / 7.3 / 5.6 / 5.7 / Private / free
Mongol HD / 6.6 / 6.6 / 5.9 / Private / free
Education / 5.2 / 9.3 / 10.3 / Private / free

Source : Maxima LLC .

(b) Broadcasting media organization

Ownership / Number of domestic media organizations providing
Radio channels only / Television channels
only / Both radio and television channels / Total
Public / 5 / 1 / - / 6
Private / 26 / 69 / - / 95
Local / 41 / 68 / - / 109
Total / 72 / 138 / - / 201

Source: Mongolian Press and Information Today” Research Report 2015

  1. Connectivity, infrastructure, access

a) Number of mobile telephone subscribers per 1000 inhabitants

2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Mobile cellular telephone users / 3426.1 / 4247.4 / 4971.7 / 5564.1
Wireless telephone subscribers / 4481 / 680** / 876 / 575
Satellite communication subscribers / 1016 / 1369 / 1190 / 757
Population of Mongolia / 2867.7 / 2930.3 / 2995.9 / 3025.6

Source: National Statistical Committee \

b) Number of individuals using the internet

2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Permanent internet users thous.persons / 695.6 / 762.2 / 1862.7 / 2430.0
Internet service providers (ISP) / 67 / 55 / 59 / 66

Source: National Statistical Committee \

6. Cultural participation:

Number of visitors at art performances \repeated reports, thousand persons\

Number of visitors / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
1 / At art performances / 1,476.8 / 1,962.2 / 1603.3 / 1399.7
2 / At museums / 598.6 / 920.6 / 608.4 / 583.4
3 / At public library / 305.9 / 1593.8 / 1713.8 / 1811.1
4 / At cultural centre and palaces / 4,676.2 / 5410.5 / 5496.3 / 5485.7
5 / At cinema ,movie centres / 1777.1 / 1347.6 / 1505.9 / 1521.7
Totals / 8,834.6 / 11234.7 / 10927 / 108016

Source:

a) Statistical information of Department on Information, Post, Communication and Technology (http://www.ictpa.gov.mn).

b) Information bulletin of Ministry of Education, Culture and Science 2015 (http://www.mecs.gov.mn).

c) National Statistical Committee (