Which Countries Get the Best-rated TV Shows & Films on Netflix?

Find out Where Your Country Ranks in Terms of the Quality and Volume of the Netflix Catalogue.

The video streaming giant is currently available in over 190 countries with thousands of shows and movies. However, every Netflix library differs by country.

We used Flixwatch, the largest Netflix database site with libraries for 70 countries, to find out what TV shows and movies are available in each country. We then collected the IMDb rating, MetaCritic score, and award wins for every title, revealing which countries have the biggest and best catalogues.

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1. Key Findings 2. Comparing the Quality of Netflix Libraries in 70 Countries 3. The Countries with the Most Award-winning Films and TV Shows 4. Which Countries Can Watch the Top TV Shows and Films?5. How Does Your Netflix Library Compare to the Rest of the World?6. Why Is Netflix Different in Each Country?7. Methodology and Sources

Key Findings

The United States has the most titles with 5,879 (4,035 movies and 1,844 TV series) and Canada has the biggest movie catalogue with 4,043 films.
Georgia has the least titles of any country in the world: 2,116 (1,388 movies and 728 TV series).
Netflix catalogues available in Canada and the United States have the joint lowest average IMDb score: 6.95.
South Korea has 109 Oscar-winning films in its Netflix catalogue - that’s 24 films more than Switzerland (the next best country) with 85 Academy Award winners.
Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore have access to the highest number of Emmy-winning titles in its Netflix library: 35 TV shows.

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Comparing the Quality of Netflix Libraries in 70 Countries

We took all of the TV shows & films available on Netflix in the 70 countries profiled by Flixwatch, found out their IMDb ratings and MetaCritic scores, and put together these graphs that show which countries have the best and worst Netflix catalogues.

Which Countries Get the Best-rated TV Shows and Films on Netflix?

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Sources: Full research available on bit.ly/VisualizingNetflix

The USA might have the biggest library, but that library has the joint lowest average IMDb rating (6.95) along with Canada. Azerbaijan, Portugal, Georgia, Ukraine and Russia are tied at the top spot for IMDb audience ratings, all with an average score of 7.13.

Azerbaijan also tops the list for average highest MetaCritic scores (65.3) and it shares that accolade with Ukraine. Azerbaijan‘s catalogue is relatively small with only 2,117 titles, that‘s only one more than Georgia, which has the smallest library.

India‘s library has the highest average IMDb audience rating in the top 10 countries with the most titles. It has 5591 titles and an average score of 7.12. Canada‘s library has the lowest average MetaCritic score, at 61.4. However, they have 5,730 titles which is second only to the US.

The Countries with the Most Award-winning Films and TV Shows

We took all of the TV shows & films available on Netflix in 70 countries, found out which ones have Oscar and Emmy wins, then we put together these maps which show the countries with the most award winning titles.

Parasite became South Korea’s first Best Picture winner at the Oscars this year, and South Korea takes the trophy for "most Academy Award Winners" on Netflix. The country also shares the top number of Emmy-winning shows (35), along with five other Asian territories: Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

You won’t be short of award-bait in Switzerland, either. Swiss Netflix has the second highest number of Oscar-winners: 85, against a towering 109 in South Korea. You will also find the joint second highest number of Emmy-winners in Switzerland (34).

But awards aren’t everything. Moldova hosts the lowest number of Oscar-winners (36) by some margin but maintains a respectable IMDb average of 7.12. Sometimes the real best pictures are those that touch your soul, rather than tugging at your heartstrings.

Which Countries Can Watch the Top TV Shows and Films?

We picked out some of the most popular films and series, according to Empire magazine and The Hollywood Reporter and looked into where they were available around the globe.

These maps show which countries have access to some of the most popular movies and shows on Netflix.

How Does Your Netflix Library Compare to the Rest of the World?

This table shows which countries have the biggest libraries, and can also be sorted to show which countries can boast the highest average IMDb ratings, MetaCritic scores and more. How does your country rank?

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South Korea

4065

2838

1227

64.5

109

Switzerland

4593

3109

1484

7.01

61.6

Japan

5065

3518

1547

6.98

63.1

Italy

3526

2452

1074

7.05

63.7

UAE

2906

2020

886

7.06

64.3

Finland

3349

2357

992

7.03

63.6

Sweden

3579

2481

1098

7.03

63.4

Egypt

2494

1605

889

7.06

64.3

Argentina

3034

2394

640

7.04

63.5

Norway

3203

2437

766

7.03

63.6

Denmark

3525

2462

1063

7.03

63.6

Slovenia

3798

2618

1180

7.1

63.7

Serbia

2339

1612

727

7.09

63.7

Romania

4686

3222

1464

7.08

Croatia

4652

3153

1499

7.08

63.7

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Why Is Netflix Different in Each Country?

The movie and television industries invest millions into creating their output, and with so much money at stake, they do their best to earn back as much as possible from their investments. To this end, studios enforce their copyright by country. Different markets have different demands for content, for example, a British sci-fi classic might not be of interest to American audiences, or an American hit movie might have no traction in Ukraine, you get the picture.

Studios charge Netflix more for the streaming rights to specific titles in some countries than others. Netflix may choose to pay the high price to stream a title in a country where they‘re confident that content will be popular, while negotiations for other regions might fail.

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Methodology

To create these visualizations, we used data from Flixwatch, the largest Netflix database site with films and TV shows for over 70 countries. For each film and TV show we found the IMDb rating and MetaCritic score. We then calculated the average ratings for each country‘s catalogue. Next we researched which titles had Oscar winners and Emmy winners. We then separated the data into countries.

For the full research behind this project, go to: bit.ly/VisualizingNetflix

Sources

The Hollywood Reporter. (2014). Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films. hollywoodreporter.com
Empire. (2019). The 100 Greatest TV Shows Of All Time. empireonline.com
Flixwatch. (2020). Worldwide Netflix Database. flixwatch.co
IMDb. (2020). IMDb. IMDb.com
MetaCritic. (2020). MetaCritic. metacritic.com
Rosenberg, E. (2019). Why Netflix Content Is Different Abroad. investopedia.com

Which Countries Get the Best-rated TV Shows & Films on Netflix?

Find out Where Your Country Ranks in Terms of the Quality and Volume of the Netflix Catalogue.

Key Findings

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Comparing the Quality of Netflix Libraries in 70 Countries

Which Countries Get the Best-rated TV Shows and Films on Netflix?

The Countries with the Most Award-winning Films and TV Shows

Which Countries Can Watch the Top TV Shows and Films?

How Does Your Netflix Library Compare to the Rest of the World?

Why Is Netflix Different in Each Country?

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