In 2015，the countrywide overall cultural and educational consumption demand in urban and rural areas continued to maintain high growth：total cultural consumption went up by 13.27%，reaching 2403.645 billion yuan；the per capita value went up by 12.19%，reaching 1723.11 yuan. As measured by per capita value，the annual growth of cultural and educational consumption in urban and rural areas was remarkably higher than the GDP growth，remarkably higher than the residents’ income growth and remarkably higher than the total consumption growth，also evidently higher than the savings growth. The disparity in cultural and educational consumption between urban and rural areas shrank by 1.37%；the regional gap of cultural and educational consumption in urban and rural areas among various provinces shrank by 0.55% over the previous year. The status evaluations of countrywide overall cultural and educational consumption demand in urban and rural areas in 2015 are as follows：the value of vertical evaluation is remarkably higher than the base value since the “Ninth Five-Year Plan” period；it is remarkably higher than the base value since the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period；it is remarkably higher than the base value since the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period；it is evidently higher than the base value since the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period and it is slightly higher than the base value of the previous year；the annual lateral evaluation without urban-rural and regional gaps is evidently lower than the ideal value，because of the continuous existing disparity of the urban-rural and the regional gaps.