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wealth produced in Italy: 89,7 billion €. But there's more, because culture has on
the rest of the economy a multiplier effect of 1.8: in other words, for every euro
produced by culture, it activates € 1,8 in other areas. So, the 89,7 billion "stimulate"
other 160,1: this means that 249,8 billion is the total amount of money produced by
the entire cultural sector, the 17% of the domestic value, with tourism as the main
beneficiary of this flywheel effect.
The Cultural Production System (alone, without considering the jobs activated in
the other segments of our economy) employs 1,5 million people, the 6.1% of total
employment in Italy.
Comparing the data with those of the last five years, the total values of the supply
chain are growing, although of very little: + 0.6% value added product, and up 0.2%
the number of employees. We fully understand the weight of these values only by
comparing them with those of the opposite sign, the ones about the whole eco-
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