Books published per country per year

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.^[2]

List of countries

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

Rank	Country	Year	Titles	Notes	References
1	United States	2013	275,232	New titles and re-editions	[3]
2	China	2013	208,418	New titles and re-editions	[3]
3	United Kingdom	2018	188,000		[4]
4	Japan	2017	139,078	New titles and re-editions	[5]
5	Russia	2019	115,171		[6]
6	Iran	2018	102,691	New and revised	[7]
7	France	2018	106,799		[4]
8	India	2013	90,000	Total; revised editions not included; 26% in Hindi, 24% in English, and the rest in other Indian languages	[8][9]
9	Spain	2017	89,962	New titles and re-editions (ediciones y reimpresiones)	[10]
10	Germany	2022	71,524		[11]
11	Turkey	2019	75,667	New titles and re-editions ("Derlenen Kitap Sayısı")	[12]
12	South Korea	2018	63,476	New	[13]
13	Italy	2013	61,966	New	[14]
14	Brazil	2018	46,829		[4]
15	Australia	2014	28,234		[15]
16	Taiwan	2010	28,084	43,258 total	[16]
17	Argentina	2014	28,010	New	[17]
18	Vietnam	2009	24,589		[18]
19	Ukraine	2019	24,416		[19]
20	Poland	2015	21,130	34,920 total	[20]
21	Czech Republic	2019	17,330		[21]
22	Colombia	2017	17,066	18,508 total	[22]
23	Netherlands	2014	16,502	Only physical Dutch new titles	[23]
24	Malaysia	2015	15,354	Declined since 2013 at 19,987	[24]
25	Romania	2008	14,984		[25]
26	Canada	2018	14,625		[26]
27	Hong Kong	2005	14,603		[27]
28	Belgium	1991	13,913		[28]
29	Finland	2018	9,368		[4]
30	Thailand	2018	6,750	Only trade sector data; educational sector data not available	[4]
31	Belarus	2020	8,205		[29]
32	Denmark	2020	13,096		[30]
33	Switzerland	2001	12,156		[31]
34	Singapore	2007	12,000+		[32]
35	Egypt	2010	12,000		[33]
36	Serbia	2019	11,897		[34]
37	Hungary	2012	11,645		[35]
38	Norway	2015	10,204		[36]
39	Bulgaria	2017	10,068		[37]
40	Slovakia	2006	9,400		[38]
41	Israel	2013	8,411		[39]
42	Austria	1996	8,056		[28]
43	Portugal	1996	7,868		[28]
44	Mexico	2012	7,521	23,948 total	[40]
45	Greece	2002	6,826		[41]
46	Chile	2012	5,641	6,045 total	[42]
47	South Africa	1995	5,418		[43]
48	Sri Lanka	1996	4,115		[44]
49	Peru	2006	4,101		[45]
50	Sweden	2010	4,074	30,857 total	[46]
51	Algeria	2008	3,955		[47]
52	Estonia	2017	3,916		[48]
53	Saudi Arabia	2014	2,387		[49]
54	Pakistan	2012	3,811	Total; 2,943 in Urdu and 868 in English	[50]
55	Lebanon	2005	3,686		[51]
56	Morocco	2018/2019	3,677		[52]
57	Myanmar	1993	3,660		[44]
58	New Zealand	2003	3,600		[53]
59	Ecuador	2010	2,854	4,164 total	[54]
60	Afghanistan	1990	2,795		[44]
61	Venezuela	2018	2,275		[4]
62	Luxembourg	2001	2,000		[31]
63	Lithuania	2018	3,075		[4]
63	Latvia	2018	2,910		[4]
64	Philippines	1996	1,507		[44]
65	Cuba	2018	992		[4]
66	Iceland	2019	1,767		[55]
67	Costa Rica	2018	2,158		[4]
68	Nigeria	1991	1,314		[43]
69	Kazakhstan	1996	1,226		[44]
70	Syria	2004	1,138		[56]
71	Uzbekistan	1996	1,003		[44]
72	Eritrea	2015	970		[43]
73	Cyprus	1996	930		[44]
74	Tunisia	1996	720		[43]
75	Dominican Republic	2018	1,866		[4]
76	Uruguay	2018	3,231		[4]
77	Bolivia	2018	1,578		[4]
78	Georgia	1996	581		[44]
79	Azerbaijan	1996	542		[44]
80	Jordan	1996	511		[44]
81	Panama	2018	940		[4]
82	Turkmenistan	1994	450		[44]
83	Guatemala	2018	1,042		[4]
84	Kyrgyzstan	2018	1,455		[4]
85	Malta	1995	404		[28]
86	Fiji	1994	401		[57]
87	Armenia	1996	396		[44]
88	Paraguay	2018	1,007		[4]
89	Albania	1991	390		[28]
90	Nicaragua	2018	27		[4]
91	Kenya	1994	300		[43]
92	United Arab Emirates	1993	293		[44]
93	Honduras	2018	102		[4]
94	Uganda	1996	288		[43]
95	Mongolia	1992	285		[44]
96	El Salvador	2018	661		[4]
97	Ethiopia	1991	240		[43]
98	Zimbabwe	1992	232		[43]
99	Vatican City	1996	228		[28]
100	Qatar	1996	209		[44]
101	Kuwait	1992	196		[44]
102	Tanzania	1990	172		[43]
103	Botswana	1991	158		[43]
104	Tajikistan	1996	132		[44]
105	Papua New Guinea	1991	122		[57]
106	Madagascar	1996	119		[43]
107	Malawi	1996	117		[43]
108	Palestine	1996	114		[44]
109	Namibia	1990	106		[43]
110	Brunei	2009	91		[18]
111	Laos	1995	88		[44]
112	Benin	1994	84		[43]
113	Mauritius	1996	80		[43]
114	Réunion	1992	69		[43]
115	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1992	64		[43]
116	Andorra	1994	57		[28]
117	Suriname	1996	47		[58]
117	American Samoa	1980	46		[59]
118	Guyana	1996	42		[58]
119	Monaco	1990	41		[28]
120	Bahrain	1996	40		[44]
121	Ghana	1992	28		[43]
122	Libya	1994	26		[43]
123	Angola	1995	22		[43]
124	Mali	1995	14		[43]
125	Gambia	1996	14		[43]
126	Burkina Faso	1996	12		[43]
127	Oman	1996	7		[44]
128	Indonesia	2020	135,081		[60]

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.^[2] 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.^[2]

Number of ISBNs registered per country^[2]

Rank	Country	2018
1	United States	3,485,322
2	United Kingdom	185,721
3	Germany	139,940
4	Italy	137,397
5	India	129,326
6	Russia	103,826
7	Brazil	95,336
8	Japan	95,129
9	Spain	86,872
10	Turkey	67,135
11	Canada	61,000
12	Mexico	27,635
13	Argentina	27,428
14	Colombia	20,867
15	Thailand	20,484
16	Norway	9,209
17	Netherlands	6,143
18	Ecuador	4,744
19	Nigeria	2,465
20	Guatemala	1,137
21	Honduras	388

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Further reading

• Wresch, William. Have and Have-Nots in the Information Age. Rutgers University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8135-2370-2

External links

• Fink-Jensen, Jonathan (2015). Book Titles per Capita. (Excel dataset for the period from 1500 until 2010 CE, worldwide)
• IPA. "IPA Annual Report 2014", International Publishers Association, retrieved October 25, 2014
• Alison Flood. "UK publishes more books per capita than any other country, report shows" The Guardian, retrieved October 25, 2014

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