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

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

TOTAL: approximately 2,210,000

## Countries by ISBN

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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

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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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## Further reading

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

## External links

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* 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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