🎬Cinema Density

How the Raw Value Is Calculated

The raw value is the estimated number of cinemas per 100,000 people. It counts publicly identifiable cinemas and regular film venues where they are recognizable as cinemas in open geodata, knowledge bases or plausible national overviews.

Density matters more than the absolute number of cinemas. A large country can have many cinemas and still rank only in the middle if supply per person is lower. This measures reachable cinema infrastructure rather than market size alone.

The rating uses a soft cap: values near zero are strongly penalized, the middle range rises clearly, and full rating is reached at roughly 4.5 cinemas per 100,000 people. This keeps the ranking stable and avoids extreme effects in small territories.

For countries and territories without complete direct coverage, Nomadino uses maintained replacement values. They are derived from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata coverage, UNESCO-UIS cinema context, population size, administering state, urbanization and plausible comparator countries.

This indicator measures only cinema density. It does not automatically rate ticket prices, film selection, streaming use, film censorship, festival quality or nightlife. Those aspects remain separate or adjacent indicators.