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The Creative Economy Report 2008 - The challenge of assessing the creative economy towards informed policy-making (also available in French and Spanish) is the first comprehensive study to present the United Nations perspective on the creative industries. This policy-oriented analysis is intended to facilitate a better understanding of the key issues underlying the emerging creative economy at national and international levels.

The development dimension is the guiding principle of the 350-page report which aims to assist developing countries to harness their creative economies and to maximize trade and development gains by recognizing the creative economy as a feasible development option for linking economic, technological, social and cultural development objectives of our contemporary society.

If you like numbers, check the tables as of page 260 of the report (284 of the pdf) which lists the top 10 world exporters by a range of product groups.