Books published per country per year

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) monitors both the number and type of books published per country per year as an important index of standard of living and education, and of a country's self-awareness. [1]

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Highlights

List of countries

In descending order of number of new titles per year, as of the latest year available, sometimes 'new titles and editions':

  1.  United States (2009) 288,355 ("new titles and editions") [3]
  2.  United Kingdom (2005) 206,000 [2]
  3.  China (2007) 136,226 [4]
  4.  Russian Federation (2008) 123,336 [5]
  5.  Germany (2009) 93,124 (new titles) [6]
  6.  Spain (2008) 86,300 [7]
  7.  India (2004) 82,537 (21,370 in Hindi and 18,752 in English) [8][9]
  8.  Japan (2009) 78,555 [10]
  9.  France (2010) 67,278 [11] (63,690 new titles)
  10.  Iran (2010) 65,000 [12][13]
  11.  Italy (2005) 59,743 [14] (33,641 new titles)
  12.  Taiwan (2007) 42,018 [15]
  13.  South Korea (2010) 40,291 [16]
  14.  Turkey (2010) 34,863 [17]
  15.  Sweden (2008) 34,320 (4,365 new titles)[18]
  16.  Netherlands (1993) 34,067 [7]
  17.  Poland (2010) 31,500 [19]
  18.  Vietnam (2009) 24,589 [20]
  19.  Indonesia (2009) more than 24,000 [20]
  20.  Brazil (2009) 22,027 [21]
  21.  Mexico (2007) 20,300 [22]
  22.  Canada (1996) 19,900 [23]
  23.  Malaysia (2009) 15,767 [20]
  24.  Switzerland (1996) 15,371 [7]
  25.  Romania (2008) 14,984 [24]
  26.  Ukraine (2004) 14,790 [25]
  27.  Belgium (1991) 13,913 [7]
  28.  Finland (2006) 13,656 [26]
  29.  Thailand (2009) 13,607 [20]
  30.  Belarus (2009) 12,885 [27]
  31.  Denmark (1996) 12,352 [7]
  32.  Czech Republic (1996) 10,244 [7]
  33.  Argentina (1996) 9,850 [23]
  34.  Hong Kong (2000) 9,773 [28]
  35.  Hungary (1996) 9,193 [7]
  36.  Egypt (2000) 9,022 [29]
  37.  Australia (2004) 8,602 [30]
  38.  Austria (1996) 8,056 [7]
  39.  Portugal (1996) 7,868 [7]
  40.  Israel (2006) 6,866 [31]
  41.  Greece (2002) 6,826 [32]
  42.  South Africa (1995) 5,418 [33]
  43.  Sri Lanka (1996) 4,115 [34]
  44.  Saudi Arabia (1996) 3,900 [34]
  45.  Lebanon (2005) 3,686 [35]
  46.  Myanmar (1993) 3,660 [34]
  47.  New Zealand (2003) 3,600 [36]
  48.  Venezuela (1996) 3,468 [23]
  49.  Afghanistan (1990) 2,795 [34]
  50.  Chile (1995) 2,469 [23]
  51.  Latvia (1996) 1,965 [7]
  52.  Iceland (2007) 1,533 [37]
  53.  Philippines (1996) 1,507 [34]
  54.  Nigeria (1991) 1,314 [33]
  55.  Kazakhstan (1996) 1,226 [34]
  56.  Syria (2004) 1,138 [38]
  57.  Uzbekistan (1996) 1,003 [34]
  58.  Uruguay (1996) 934 [23]
  59.  Cyprus (1996) 930 [34]
  60.  Morocco (1996) 918 [33]
  61.  Tunisia (1996) 720 [33]
  62.  Algeria (1996) 670 [33]
  63.  Peru (1996) 612 [23]
  64.  Georgia (1998) 581 [34]
  65.  Azerbaijan (1996) 542 [34]
  66.  Jordan (1996) 511 [34]
  67.  Turkmenistan (1994) 450 [34]
  68.  Kyrgyzstan (1998) 420 [34]
  69.  Malta (1995) 404 [7]
  70.  Fiji (1994) 401 [39]
  71.  Armenia (1996) 396 [34]
  72.  Albania (1991) 381 [7]
  73.  Kenya (1994) 300 [33]
  74.  United Arab Emirates (1993) 293 [34]
  75.  Uganda (1996) 288 [33]
  76.  Mongolia (1992) 285 [34]
  77.  Ethiopia (1991) 240 [33]
  78.  Zimbabwe (1992) 232 [33]
  79.  Vatican City (1996) 228 [7]
  80.  Qatar (1996) 209 [34]
  81.  Kuwait (1992) 196 [34]
  82.  Tanzania (1990) 172 [33]
  83.  Botswana (1991) 158 [33]
  84.  Paraguay (1993) 152 [23]
  85.  Tajikistan (1996) 132 [34]
  86.  Papua New Guinea (1991) 122 [39]
  87.  Madagascar (1996) 119 [33]
  88.  Malawi (1996) 117 [33]
  89.  Palestine (1996) 114 [34]
  90.  Namibia (1990) 106 [33]
  91.  Eritrea (1993) 106 [33]
  92.  Brunei Darussalam (2009) 91 [20]
  93.  Laos (1995) 88 [34]
  94.  Benin (1994) 84 [33]
  95.  Mauritius (1996) 80 [33]
  96.  Réunion (1992) 69 [33]
  97.  Democratic Republic of the Congo (1992) 64 [33]
  98.  Andorra (1994) 57 [7]
  99.  Suriname (1996) 47 [23]
  100.  Guyana (1996) 42 [23]
  101.  Monaco (1990) 41 [7]
  102.  Bahrain (1996) 40 [34]
  103.  Ghana (1992) 28 [33]
  104.  Libya (1994) 26 [33]
  105.  Angola (1995) 22 [33]
  106.  Mali (1995) 14 [33]
  107.  Gambia (1996) 14 [33]
  108.  Burkina Faso (1996) 12 [33]
  109.  Ecuador (1995) 12 [23]
  110.  Oman (1996) 7 [34]

References

  1. ^ Wresch, William. Have and Have-Nots in the Information Age. Rutgers University Press, 1996, p. 39
  2. ^ a b c Goldfarb, Jeff. "Bookish Britain overtakes America as top publisher", Reuters Entertainment, May 10, 2006.
  3. ^ http://www.bowker.com/index.php/press-releases-2010/616-bowker-reports-traditional-us-book-production-flat-in-2009 and http://www.bowkerinfo.com/bowker/IndustryStats2010.pdf
  4. ^ General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China [1], General information of the national press and publishing industry in 2007. (In Chinese)
  5. ^ Federal Agency of Publishing and Mass Media [2], Book Publishing in Russia. (In Russian)
  6. ^ "Branchenzahlen" of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o INE. [3]
  8. ^ The Federation of Indian Publishers
  9. ^ Frankfurt book fair 2010 - India unlimited
  10. ^ Japanese book publishers association report - An Introduction to Publishing in Japan 2010–2011
  11. ^ (French)key numbers 2009-2010, centre national du livre
  12. ^ Raja News: Books stats released by ministry of cultural affairs, Iran
  13. ^ IRINN: Stats of Iranian book titles published with government authorization
  14. ^ [4]
  15. ^ Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan) [5], 2008 Publication Yearbook. (In Chinese)
  16. ^ Korean publishers association official statistics
  17. ^ [6]. Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  18. ^ Frankfurter Buchmesse report
  19. ^ [7]. Wirtualna Polska
  20. ^ a b c d e ASEAN book publishers association report 2010
  21. ^ Câmara Brasileira do Livro, Information on book production in Brazil in 2009 [8]
  22. ^ Frankfurt Book Fair, Information on book production in Mexico in 2007 [9]
  23. ^ a b c d e f g h i j UNESCO. "America", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics.
  24. ^ http://www.zf.ro/companii/la-fiecare-miliard-de-euro-din-pib-in-romania-se-publica-113-titluri-noi-de-carti-la-fel-ca-in-anglia-5151343/
  25. ^ [10] Overall state of book publishing in Ukraine (In Ukrainian).
  26. ^ Annual Report on the State of the Book Trade in FINLAND in 2007
  27. ^ Belarusian Book Chamber, news section for 01/28/2010 . (In Belarusian)
  28. ^ Hong Kong PDF
  29. ^ the cultural industries in Egypt (2002)
  30. ^ Jeremy Fisher-The Professional Author: Researching creativity and reality
  31. ^ Legal Deposit Department: Israeli Book Statistics for 2006, The Jewish National and University Library. Retrieved February 5, 2008.
  32. ^ "Arab books and human development", Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Spring, 2004, Eugene Rogan
  33. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y UNESCO "Africa", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics
  34. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w UNESCO "Asia", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics
  35. ^ Lebanon - Book Production Data [11]
  36. ^ New Zealand gov publications
  37. ^ National and University Library of Iceland. Icelandic National Bibliography. "Statistical summary of material published in Iceland in the year 2007" Retrieved 1 January 2010.
  38. ^ Frankfurt Book Fair. "Information on the Syrian book market". http://www.book-fair.com/en/networking/fairs_markets/book_markets/syria/. Retrieved 12 April 2011. 
  39. ^ a b UNESCO "Oceania", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics

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