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The size of the franchise sector by region. Only the US has fully current official data at high confidence; other regions carry year and confidence labels so you read them in context.
Every figure on this page carries its source, year and confidence level.
United States
$936.4B
Economic output, up 4.4%. 851,000 units, ~9 million jobs.
IFA / FRANdata2025 · High
United Kingdom
£17.2B
Turnover (~1% of GDP), around 48,600 units. The last comprehensive survey was 2018.
bfa / NatWest2018 · Medium
Australia
~A$184B
1,344 brands, over 98,000 outlets, ~598,000 employed.
FCA / trade.gov~2023 · Medium
Europe
~€1.3T
About 8,500 brands, ~5 million jobs. A secondary, unaudited aggregation.
EFF~2022 · Cautious
Asia / Southeast Asia — Data gap
No official total exists
Unlike the US, UK, Australia and EU, no franchise market-size dataset exists for Asia as a whole. This is the biggest gap — and the opportunity for a proprietary index.