Comparing the metrics
Sweden
10.5m 55.6k 576 623m 5.5k
Finland
Iceland
Norway
5.6m 49.9k 502 270m 2.5k
389k 87.8k
5.5m 83.7k 402 208m 2.0k
Estonia
UK
Denmark
1.4m 30.3k 441 26.7m 540
69.4m 51.0k 235 1.6bn 14.6k
5.9m 68.3k 2.1k 828m 11.3k Germany
Ireland
Latvia
5.4m 115.6k 364 126m 1.8k
83.5m 53.5k 270 2.5bn 20.2k Netherlands
1.8m 23.1k 109 14.6m 280
France
Lithuania
18.0m 65.3k 612 1.0bn 10.2k Belgium
68.8m 43.3k 450 5.9bn 28.3k
2.8m 29.0k 244 39.0m 630
Austria
Belarus
9.1m 55.9k 630 212m 5.2k
11.8m 54.0k 450 539m 4.9k
9.0m 9.3k Poland
Switzerland
9.0m 102.5k 85 82.5m 693
36.4m 25.1k 341 681m 11.2k Ukraine
Slovenia
2.1m 33.0k 533 71.1m 1.0k
32.7m 5.7k Czechia
Croatia
3.8m 24.2k 237 70.8m 837
10.9m 31.6k 284 194m 2.7k Slovakia
Italy
58.9m 38.3k 188 933m 9.9k Spain
5.4m 25.2k 176 59.7m 846 Hungary
49.1m 33.9k 328 1.6bn 15.4k Portugal
9.5m 22.6k 293 96.5m 2.5k Romania
10.7m 28.4k 179 120.1m 1.7k
19.0m 20.1k 178 154m 3.0k Serbia
Key
Resident population, 2025
6.5m 13.5k 76 13.8m 450 Bulgaria
Gross domestic product, impact and tickets (€) Total theme park and water park attendance per 1,000 residents
6.4m 18.5k 281
123m 1.5k
Estimated theme park and water park economic impact (monetary €)
Greece
Estimated theme park and water park employment impact (jobs)
10.3m 23.9k 113 55.0m 1.0k Cyprus
Sources: 1. Population = eurostat 2. GDP per capita = IMF WEO April 2025 Edition (exchangerates.org) 3. TP & WP Visits Per 1,000 Residents = LDP database
982k 36.9k 792 55.9m 725
Malta
4. Economic Impact =LDP database for park spend estimates and OECD for respective multipliers 5. Employment Impact = LDP database for park employee estimates and OECD for respective multipliers 6. LDP database for park employee estimates and OECD for respective multipliers
0.5m 43.6k
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