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]
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 |
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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 | 3677 | [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 | <ref> | |
TOTAL: approximately 2,210,000
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]
Rank | Country | 2018 |
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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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