Statistical, Ecosystems and Competitiveness Analysis of the Media and Content Industries: The Newspaper Publishing Industry

Table 4: Employment, average annual growth, rate in publishing of newspapers, 1995-2007 
 
EU27 
EU6 
EU9 
EU15 
EU new 
Publishing of newspapers 
-1.4 
-2.7 
-0.5 
-1.7 
1.2 
Total employment (x billion) 
1.1 0.9 1.7 1.2 
0.7 
Table 5 shows the value added for the publishing of newspapers and the annual average 
growth rate between 1995 and 2007.
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In this report the following definition of value added is used: “Value added takes as its starting point the Gross 
Domestic Product (GDP). This measures the total annual output of goods and services produced by residents 
of a particular country. It includes exports but excludes income from abroad. When this income is added to 

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The Newspaper Publishing Industry 
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Table 5: Value added and annual average growth rate for publishing of newspapers in the EU27 
Value added 
Annual average growth rate 
million 
EUR 
% 
2007 
1995-2007 
Publishing of newspapers 
15,898 
-1.1 
Total EU economy 
9,312,928 
2.6 
Source: Eurostat. 
The value added of the publishing of newspapers amounts to 15,898 million Euro’s in 2007. 
Whereas the EU economy in general showed a positive growth for value added, the value 
added of the newspaper publishing decreased with an annual average of -1.1 % between 1995 
and 2007. 
Table 6 shows that the decline is again sharpest in the EU6, but that also the new EU member 
states show negative growth in value added of -0.5% for newspaper publishing. 
Table 6: Average annual growth rate in value added for the overall economy and newspaper