42 responses to “How Many Animators are there in the World?”

1. THIS IS SOOO INACCURATE!!!! Africa has got animators, and not just in South Africa! I’m an animator in Ghana and there are animators here in not only Ghana but Nigeria and other African Countries as well

   • Definitly agree, we’re adding data to different countries as soon as people ask,we’ll let you know as soon as we grt those numbers and list them 🙂

   • Hi! We’ve made some updates, please come have a look and let us know what you think 🙂

   • Hi david
     May I have your email ?

2. Colombia any ?? I am Colombian 😉

   • Hi!Thanks for visiting,we’ll add your country’s data soon!Stay awesome \(“, )/

   • Hi! We’ve made some updates and added Columbia, please come have a look and let us know what you think 🙂

3. this map is everything but accurate. Where is Iran? Are we gonna be political even on this topic?

   • Hi Sikura!Thanks for visiting 🙂 We’ll add the data as soon as our developer comes back.We started with a few countries but as people ask about theirs we add it as soon as we get the numbers. If Iran has an Animation group we can contact please let us know and we’ll drop them an email 🙂 Stay awesome!

   • Hi Sikura! We’ve made some updates and added Iran, please come have a look and let us know what you think 🙂

4. This map is really bad and not accurate at all. I life in the Netherlands and I can tell you that there is no way that there are more animators in the Netherlands than in country’s such as France or Japan.

   • Hi Nanda!Peter mentioned the same thing and we’re looking into it 🙂 thank you for visiting and the advice!Stay awesome!

5. Nice idea but…
   The method used to create this map is very unreliable.
   In the Netherlands Animator is a job description in the tourist industry, so most of the 945 animators stated in your map for our country are of that kind.
   Obviously we don’t have more animators then France, one of the animation capitols of Europe.
   Would have been nice…but alas its not the case.

   • Hi Peter!Glad you could drop in to have a look 🙂 Definitely a fun way to create an idea of what the data could be but in a global scale it was a tough one. If you have anyone we can contact for 100% accurate results let us know 🙂 we’re already mailing a few animation groups for different countries. Thanks for the info and Stay awesome!

   • Hi Peter, so I’ve updated France (thanks for the heads up) but would like to know if you can give a suggestion for a better title keyword I should search for that’s specific to the animation industry in the Netherlands?

6. Those stats are not very accurate… It´s not possible that Japan has only 186 animators and Argentina only 163. Bad data, guys…

   • Hi Toto!Thanks for dropping in 🙂 On a global scale it was the best data source we could find. Were in the process of contacting a few animation groups to see if we can get accurate results for Japan and Argentina (since those are only stats from LinkedIn). Let us know if you have any people we can contact!Stay awesome!

   • Hi Toto, can you give us an idea what title to search for? Is there a specific word they use for animator in Argentina which we can use to update the stats? *We’ve contact the Japan board and asked for numbers 😉

7. What does someone do to be considered an animator? Is it their full time occupation or do they have published work?

   • Hi James, thanks for visiting!For this exercise the person had to have the word “animator” in their title on LinkedIn . Although not the best way to get 100% accuracy for the numbers it was the best way of coming close. If you have accurate numbers or someone we can contact then please let us know and we’ll update 🙂 Stay awesome!

8. Dont agree with the numbers?Then send us your countries official animation body’s contact information and we’ll go digging. We’ve found that Asia,China,Japan might not use Linkedin so help us find an accurate source please! Stay Awesome!

9. Japan, 186?
   Just in wikipedia, there are something like 60 animation studios listed : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_companies .
   I doubt there is only 3 animators by studios…
   They just doesn’t use linkedin.
   Your map is just people who have animator written on their linkdein profiL. It still interesting.

   And there : https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/reports/market/pdf/2005_35_r.pdf
   430 anim production house…

   • And I don’t know how you did your research beacause the word “animator” in “france” gave me 3268….
     https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?keywords=Animator&title=Animator&titleScope=CP&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Asuggestion,clickedEntityId%3A459,idx%3A1-1-1,tarId%3A1466759190226,tas%3Aanimator&rsid=286027091466759337371&openFacets=N,G,CC&f_G=fr%3A0&orig=FCTD&page_num=100&pt=people

     I checked the first 1000 profil, they seems to be ideed animators (2d or 3d).
     And its just the guys in Linkedin…

     • Hi Fred!Thank you for the interesting feedback and links!The filter was just “Animator” in Job Title and “Current” (Not Current and Past). We agree,the stats are definitely not 100% but on a Global scale its the best we could find 🙂 We’ve already been given a few emails to mail to get precise numbers…so interesting!Thanks for commenting 🙂

       • Yes, I understand that it’s really difficult to have a global vision. You would need to search for each country if there exist a census of the number of animators. I searched a little for the France, as I’m sure it exist somewhere but I didn’t found it. (There is a big community here, and some survey, political actions…)

         • Hi Fred! We’ve updated the numbers for France, thanks for the heads up! We’ve also contacted Japan’s Animators board to ask for correct numbers. Plus we added your name in the map as thanks 🙂

10. Chile has a lot too!

    • Definitely!We’ve had more than one request to add your country and will update it soon 🙂

    • And Chile is added! We added your name on the map to say thanks for the heads up 🙂

11. Include Bangladesh. Though it is veeery small manner , but we have few 2D animated films too for local.

    • Will do! 🙂

12. Ireland has a big Animation industry. Many childrens shows from the BBC and Disney, CN etc are produced here. there are at least several hundred if not easily over 1,000 people working as animators or animation artists.

    • Thank you for the heads up Michael, we’ve added you awesome folk to the map and added your name as a thanks as well 😉 Stay awesome!

13. Nice job guys (even though yourstatistics s surprised me).
    am a Nigerian and an animator and there are others too.

    • Nigeria added!Thanks Nwobodo!

14. Hi, in Estonian it is called “animaator”. Right now it looks like zero, but there are animators.
    Thank you!

15. interesting facts , just follow always updating , successes!

16. Hi, I would first like to thank people like you that work hard and share their results at the cost of a lot of people bitching about the inaccuracy. Please keep up the effort.
    I am also looking into these figures, but your numbers add up to about 60k-65k animators world-wide… this cannot be possible.
    My figures are closer to 1.7 million animators world-wide and I still believe that I am under estimating the market. If I find a reliable source I will share it here.
    Cheers,
    Olivier

    • We appreciate it Oliver and thanks for dropping in! The data is purely from LinkedIn so although I dont believe its 100% accurate it’s just whats being listed on a large business profile platform. Open to any sources 😀

17. You would think there are more animators in Japan since there are so many anime that come out each year, right?

    • From the discussions it seems that they dont really use LinkedIn as a Job profile, so I guess thats why the number is so small 🙂

18. Wow, I had no idea that there were so many animators in the world! I would love to be an animator, but I don’t think that I have what it takes. For now I think I will stick to finding new and creative content from other people.