Books published per country per year explained

This page lists the number of book titles published per country per year from various sources. According to UNESCO, this is an important index of standard of living, education, and of a country's self-awareness.[1] No standardised way to track the number of books published exists which can make it difficult to compare countries or track the industry as a whole.[2] One method is to track how many International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) are registered by each country.

List of countries

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

RankCountryYearTitlesNotesReferences
1 United States2013275,232New titles and re-editions
2 China2013208,418New titles and re-editions[3]
3 United Kingdom2018188,000[4]
4 Japan2017139,078New titles and re-editions[5]
5 Indonesia2020135,081[6]
62019115,171[7]
72018102,691New and revised[8]
8 France2018106,799
9 India201390,000Total; revised editions not included; 26% in Hindi, 24% in English, and the rest in other Indian languages[9] [10]
10 Spain201789,962New titles and re-editions (ediciones y reimpresiones)[11]
10 Germany202271,524[12]
11 Turkey201975,667New titles and re-editions ("Derlenen Kitap Sayısı")[13]
12201863,476New[14]
13 Italy201361,966New[15]
14 Brazil201846,829
15 Australia201428,234[16]
16201028,08443,258 total[17]
17 Argentina201428,010New[18]
18200924,589[19]
19 Ukraine201924,416[20]
20 Poland201521,13034,920 total[21]
21 Czech Republic201917,330[22]
22 Colombia201717,06618,508 total[23]
23 Netherlands201416,502Only physical Dutch new titles [24]
24 Malaysia201515,354Declined since 2013 at 19,987[25]
25 Romania200814,984[26]
26 Canada201814,625[27]
27 Hong Kong200514,603[28]
28 Belgium199113,913[29]
29 Finland20189,368
30 Thailand20186,750Only trade sector data; educational sector data not available
31 Belarus20208,205[30]
32 Denmark202013,096[31]
33 Switzerland200112,156Web site: Producción Y Comercio Internacional Del Libro En Centro América . 2012-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130912151508/http://www.cerlalc.org/secciones/libro_desarrollo/Centro_America.pdf . 2013-09-12 . dead .
34 Singapore200712,000+[32]
35 Egypt201012,000 [33]
36 Serbia201911,897[34]
37 Hungary201211,645[35]
38 Norway201510,204[36]
39 Bulgaria201710,068[37]
40 Slovakia20069,400[38]
41 Israel20138,411[39]
42 Austria19968,056
43 Portugal19967,868
44 Mexico20127,52123,948 total[40]
45 Greece20026,826[41]
46 Chile20125,6416,045 total[42]
47 South Africa19955,418[43]
48 Sri Lanka19964,115[44]
49 Peru20064,101[45]
50 Sweden20104,07430,857 total[46]
51 Algeria20083,955[47]
52 Estonia20173,916[48]
53 Saudi Arabia20142,387[49]
54 Pakistan20123,811Total; 2,943 in Urdu and 868 in English[50]
55 Lebanon20053,686[51]
56 Morocco2018/20193,677[52]
57 Myanmar19933,660
58 New Zealand20033,600[53]
59 Ecuador20102,8544,164 total[54]
60 Afghanistan19902,795
6120182,275
62 Luxembourg20012,000
63 Lithuania20183,075
63 Latvia20182,910
64 Philippines19961,507
65 Cuba2018992
66 Iceland20191,767[55]
67 Costa Rica20182,158
68 Nigeria19911,314
69 Kazakhstan19961,226
7020041,138[56]
71 Uzbekistan19961,003
72 Eritrea2015970
73 Cyprus1996930
74 Tunisia1996720
75 Dominican Republic20181,866
76 Uruguay20183,231
7720181,578
78 Georgia1996581
79 Azerbaijan1996542
80 Jordan1996511
81 Panama2018940
82 Turkmenistan1994450
83 Guatemala20181,042
84 Kyrgyzstan20181,455
85 Malta1995404
86 Fiji1994401[57]
87 Armenia1996396
88 Paraguay20181,007
89 Albania1991390
90 Nicaragua201827
91 Kenya1994300
92 United Arab Emirates1993293
93 Honduras2018102
94 Uganda1996288
95 Mongolia1992285
96 El Salvador2018661
97 Ethiopia1991240
98 Zimbabwe1992232
991996228
100 Qatar1996209
101 Kuwait1992196
1021990172
103 Botswana1991158
104 Tajikistan1996132
105 Papua New Guinea1991122
106 Madagascar1996119
107 Malawi1996117
1081996114
109 Namibia1990106
110200991
111199588
112 Benin199484
113 Mauritius199680
114 Reunion199269
115199264
116 Andorra199457
117 Suriname199647[58]
117 American Samoa198046[59]
118 Guyana199642
119 Monaco199041
120 Bahrain199640
121 Ghana199228
122 Libya199426
123 Angola199522
124 Mali199514
125 Gambia199614
126 Burkina Faso199612
127 Oman19967

TOTAL: approximately 2,210,000

Countries by ISBN

Many published books have an ISBN and it is a useful measure for how productive a country's publishing industry is. However, this data is not collected for all countries. It may not represent the total number of books a country has published, as not every registered ISBN is then used and as books may have multiple ISBNs.

Number of ISBNs registered per country!Rank!Country!2018
13,485,322
2 United Kingdom185,721
3 Germany139,940
4 Italy137,397
5 India129,326
6103,826
7 Brazil95,336
8 Japan95,129
9 Spain86,872
10 Turkey67,135
11 Canada61,000
12 Mexico27,635
13 Argentina27,428
14 Colombia20,867
15 Thailand20,484
16 Norway9,209
17 Netherlands6,143
18 Ecuador4,744
19 Nigeria2,465
20 Guatemala1,137
21 Honduras388

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

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