Original scientific paper

Evaluation of the economic impact of sport in developed countries and in Croatia

Mato Bartoluci ; Faculty of Physical Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Sport plays an important social and economic role in developed countries. In the sense of economy, sport generates numerous economic effects at both micro and macro levels. At the microeconomic level those effects influence the development of sport and complementary economic activities (sport and the catering industry, sport and tourism, sport and construction industry etc.). At the macro level, sport in the developed countries produces many economic effects.
The examples analyzed in this paper show that the annual income from sport in the USA amounts to 222 billion USD, with an ever growing tendency. The examples from the developed West-European countries suggest the total annual consumption for sport of around 80 billion USD. There are many other indicators that sport produces far greater economic effects than it causes on the budget expenses in the developed countries. The data on the economic effects of sport in Croatia, as a country in transition, show that sport (directly or through tourism and other activities) generates significant economic effects, surpassing by far the expenses of the sport activities, but falling far behind the developed West-European countries. Although the missing data for other European countries prevent a more reliable analysis, it is possible - on the basis of the presented examples - to perceive the impact of sport on the economic development.

Keywords

sport, economic effects of sport, developed countries, Croatia

Hrčak ID:

255944

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/255944

Publication date:

15.4.1997.

Article data in other languages: german

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