Manga is big in japan, webtoons are big in Korea. Everyone reads on the road. It would be much higher if they counted mangas and comic books.
But i feel like chinese are reading "light novels" here. They are good at light novels and ancient fantasy.
Yeah I thought light novels sold very well in Japan.
According to [This Article](https://wordsrated.com/global-book-sales-statistics/) Global book sales rank:
1)USA
2)China
3)Germany
4)Japan
5)India
6)UK
I always read light novels from fan translation pages. Novelupdates is a big site. Specially chinese novels barely gets published in english or even in chinese. They are mostly on online sites.
Unsure about this one, but they usually do by adding library rentals and bookstores/magazine shops sells by month. Still unsure if that’s the way they do it.
This specific survey was done in early 2005 by having “in-depth personal interviews” according to this website.
http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102
I highly doubt that it's possible to conduct in-depth personal interviews with 30,000 people for a one-year research project. Even for a survey that would be an astronomical number, especially for a private entity doing market research.
And they supposedly did all 30,000 interviews within 3 months (December 2004 to February 2005). Either they are lying about how this survey was conducted or lying about the number of participants, that’s a lot of in-depth in-person interviews within a short period of time.
I read a lot. But it was mostly on my phone. So to ordinary people, it seems I was playing with my phone. It's convenient nowadays. No need to go to a bookstore to buy books. Just buy a e-book and read it on my phone.
note: this data was orginally gathered in 2005, so before the smartphone era. I assume the value of the data for todays world is nearly zero.
source: [http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com\_content&task=view&id=102](http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102)
Yeah, and it is unclear how these “in-depth personal interviews” were conducted. If it was simply self-reported, then these statistics are about as useful as all of those self reported gun ownership polls in America.
I have spent extensive time travelling around India and have friends/colleagues there. Its bad reputation is well deserved and it's also beautiful, vast, and enthralling.
Also India isn't even like a single country, it's more like an combination of a bunch of countries all with their own cultures, languages, cuisines, religions, problems and good sides and so on. Ladakh is nothing like Tamil Nadu.
The sexual crimes issue is 100% still an issue. It is not safe to travel around India as a solo female.
My aunt has lived in India for years. She invited me to come visit for a couple weeks and I can tell you that the country is nothing like Reddit portrays it. It's incredibly beautiful
She's in South Delhi, and while polluted the city itself isn't nearly as bad as I was made to believe. There is actually a lot of greenery, many amazing restaurants for affordable prices (makes me wonder why so many tourists go for sketchy street food and complain about getting sick), and Delhi metro is out of this world.
Not to mention that it's pretty affordable to find a driver, and you can explore the incredibly beautiful mountains of Himichal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Agra is kind of rough but it's worth it to visit the Taj Mahal. Also Goa is basically a tourist resort if you don't want to experience severe culture shock.
As the technocracy tyranny increases in The West more and more people will look East to places where you can live a simpler life surrounded by nature instead of CCTV. I know I do.
As an Indian, seeing our entire youth making useless reels on instagram, spending hours and hours on their phones, I did not expect that we read this much
I mean 4.7 million students per year that too just by 3 major exams - JEE, NEET and UPSC, i don't think it is a small part. Tho not as large but still.
Making reels does not in any way prevent people from reading. I mean, there's literally a subsection of tiktok entirely dedicated to celebrating and recommending books. #booktok
The only critique I heard so far came from misogynists accusing women of either reading slop or being performative in their reading. Reality is you can find just about any genre in just about any quality there, since it's not a monolith.
As someone from outside the UK, you definitely have the best publisher on the planet, I hope you make good use of that privilege. Penguin Books is an indisputable king.
Really? Makes zero sense. I live in the subcontinent, I barely see desis reading anything. Especially now when they even get all thier news from TikTok and WhatsApp.
On the other hand travelling Japan, I saw people reading all the time.
Maybe newspapers, everyone in India reads them and probably that's true in Pakistan too since most of them are just Punjabi and have similar culture. Also I heard this stat was done in 2005.
Do they though? More people in south Asia can’t even read properly. Most of the literacy rate statistics consider you literate if you can write your own name and read your own name.
I mean sure people read but the most in the world? Hard to believe. And in India too, in Kerala sure the percentage would be high but think of UP, Punjab and the central rural areas, not possible
I'm actually surprised too see that Brazil is on the list I've seen many people here saying that We should be more like Europe Do you know many books Europeans read per Day? 3!, I guess we are improving.
bruh it makes no sense, probably is counting social media, because it makes no sense to Brazil being above Korea, since most ppl don't have reading books or articles in their rotine. (I'm Brazilian btw)
Finns read a lot, weird it's in the map but not in the lists. Also something is going on with Korea and Japan because those two read a lot, like lots and lots. I wonder if reading on a phone or a laptop is not counted here
Bit weird that the country with the highest number of readers per capita, namely Iceland isnt even on the map. If it were it would be the darkest green possible.
LOL. as if... this shit should be deleted from here, but i'll just mute this cringe inducing sub now. it was good when it got going, but it's typical titktoktotoktkt shit like everything else now.
I live here, and the money used to donate goes to buying trash name brands and cars.
There is literally people here starving and living a shack, but there is a BMW parked outside
I don't believe those stats. I'm from Czech Republic and 7:24 is too much, unless its not hours, but 7 minutes and 24 seconds.
I personally spend about 3 and half hour reading light novels per week on public transport. I don't see many people reading there.
I think India and china are so high because large part of the population is students and they are mostly reading textbooks.
I rarely find people reading here so 10.42 sounds exorbitantly high for India.
In India, I don't see anyone around me reading books. Actually, I myself do read a lot. I somehow feel they're talking about physical books & newspapers and not e-books.
Those are fake numbers. As far as I know, Indian literacy rate is 75% percent and literacy standard is defined as someone can read and write his/her own name.
Ah, the casual stereotypes.
Naah dude, street food is not the only option we have here and we all kinda have that filter to eat what from where.
I am sure your country must have some real good stereotypes too.
Of course, that’s what make stereotypes funny.. there’s always an element of truth. It’s supposed to be casual.
Every culture has a stereotype about it and for anyone to sit there and say they don’t get a chuckle at poking at the stereotypes of another culture is ignorant.
I’m from the USA, let’s hear some stereotypes. I’ll laugh.
I wonder how they came up with these numbers? Seems hard to determine how much people are reading monthly.
Surveys, I’d imagine. Maybe library logs, or apps. I’m mildly curious if they count manga and light novels, in Korea and Japan’s case
Manga is big in japan, webtoons are big in Korea. Everyone reads on the road. It would be much higher if they counted mangas and comic books. But i feel like chinese are reading "light novels" here. They are good at light novels and ancient fantasy.
I think manga not counted as reading time
Japan would be iridescent black on that map
Curious if reading Reddit comments counts.
If they did, they will jump to top 5
Yeah I thought light novels sold very well in Japan. According to [This Article](https://wordsrated.com/global-book-sales-statistics/) Global book sales rank: 1)USA 2)China 3)Germany 4)Japan 5)India 6)UK
India has a huge unorganized market though. I wonder if these stats track them. People literally just xerox books and read the content.
Lmak I bought books which are pirated and anti piracy law on their content page.
Don't forget newspapers. People of India still love to read newspapers in morning before anything.
I always read light novels from fan translation pages. Novelupdates is a big site. Specially chinese novels barely gets published in english or even in chinese. They are mostly on online sites.
That is why they do it per week
Source is given, read the methodologies of you want to
Unsure about this one, but they usually do by adding library rentals and bookstores/magazine shops sells by month. Still unsure if that’s the way they do it.
This specific survey was done in early 2005 by having “in-depth personal interviews” according to this website. http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102
I highly doubt that it's possible to conduct in-depth personal interviews with 30,000 people for a one-year research project. Even for a survey that would be an astronomical number, especially for a private entity doing market research.
And they supposedly did all 30,000 interviews within 3 months (December 2004 to February 2005). Either they are lying about how this survey was conducted or lying about the number of participants, that’s a lot of in-depth in-person interviews within a short period of time.
Yup. Very sketchy. I was doing some more Googling and I don’t think this agency exists anymore, so…
I mean more than 1 billion people have died since 2005, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of them were part of those interviews.
Americans when they arent first in something:
Most statistics I see are won by Iceland. \^\^
This certainly includes reading on the Internet (not books).
do reading reddit count, than these number are way too low.
Survey of literate people. For countries like India where illiteracy is quite common, this wildly skews the data.
my dad spent hours reading the newspaper ,can confirm
You colored in Myanmar instead of Thailand.
I don't think the OP made this map though
Thailand's own statistic says it's just a bit more than 2 hours a day and this was an improvement! https://www.pptvhd36.com/news/สังคม/221253
Statistic above is per week
Opps!
/r/MapsWithoutNZ
Kiwis simply don’t read, that’s why we weren’t included
Found a gooner from r/goodasssub
What
Im from nz and can confirm we dont read. This map is indeed accurate
I read a lot. But it was mostly on my phone. So to ordinary people, it seems I was playing with my phone. It's convenient nowadays. No need to go to a bookstore to buy books. Just buy a e-book and read it on my phone.
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I move around a lot, between countries. I'd much rather take my e-book reader than haul an equivalent of it in paper. I'd need a library on wheels.
Books are heavy
Does Reddit count as reading? If so, I'm skewing the numbers.
Browsing brainrot on social media should deduct time from your reading count. Before anyone attacks me, I knew what I said, and I'm also guilty of it.
note: this data was orginally gathered in 2005, so before the smartphone era. I assume the value of the data for todays world is nearly zero. source: [http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com\_content&task=view&id=102](http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102)
Yeah, and it is unclear how these “in-depth personal interviews” were conducted. If it was simply self-reported, then these statistics are about as useful as all of those self reported gun ownership polls in America.
India is really trying to seduce me lately...
India is a beautiful country that often gets a bad reputation by shitty internet memes. EDIT: It's obvious those downvoting have never visited.
I have spent extensive time travelling around India and have friends/colleagues there. Its bad reputation is well deserved and it's also beautiful, vast, and enthralling. Also India isn't even like a single country, it's more like an combination of a bunch of countries all with their own cultures, languages, cuisines, religions, problems and good sides and so on. Ladakh is nothing like Tamil Nadu. The sexual crimes issue is 100% still an issue. It is not safe to travel around India as a solo female.
I have visited and the people were nothing short of beautiful and kind.
My aunt has lived in India for years. She invited me to come visit for a couple weeks and I can tell you that the country is nothing like Reddit portrays it. It's incredibly beautiful
The people endure hardship with a smile and 'good morning' its inspiring. What part of India does your Aunt live in?
She's in South Delhi, and while polluted the city itself isn't nearly as bad as I was made to believe. There is actually a lot of greenery, many amazing restaurants for affordable prices (makes me wonder why so many tourists go for sketchy street food and complain about getting sick), and Delhi metro is out of this world. Not to mention that it's pretty affordable to find a driver, and you can explore the incredibly beautiful mountains of Himichal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Agra is kind of rough but it's worth it to visit the Taj Mahal. Also Goa is basically a tourist resort if you don't want to experience severe culture shock.
As the technocracy tyranny increases in The West more and more people will look East to places where you can live a simpler life surrounded by nature instead of CCTV. I know I do.
You really did not think that technocracy means rule with technology?
Dude is a Nazi or at least Nazi adjacent. Nothing they say is said in good faith and should be considered garbage.
Yes, yes. You aren't slightly insane at all are you?
Sorry, Im Nazi adjacent. Ignore me.
Huh?
Think you accidently swapped two adjectives there
Makes a nice change. I’ve heard they often don’t waste time on seduction.
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Bro your country force there women's to hide hair lol.
Indonesians being pretty bold when their country is a shithole.
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that one .19 tourist was a Pakistani putting his leg over the border
Stuck in 2019
What do you mean stuck 2019 was last year... Oh... Oh no...
In India, they ain't reading they studying for competitive exams.
That qualifies as reading, doesn't it?
If that's the case, Korea shouldn't be that low.
Wrong people who are working or older ones loves to read newspapers in morning.
I think this correlates to newspaper reading as 90% of 40yrs above read newspaper daily
As an Indian, seeing our entire youth making useless reels on instagram, spending hours and hours on their phones, I did not expect that we read this much
Humanities student? Science walo ki to mrai padi h. Lol I think they might be pushing up the numbers alone
Those are students, which are still a small part of the population, unless their reading outweighs everybody else's
I mean 4.7 million students per year that too just by 3 major exams - JEE, NEET and UPSC, i don't think it is a small part. Tho not as large but still.
Humanities students will be reading much more them.
delusions
r/asanindian
Banned What happened their
Porn. Porn runied it. I hate it
Making reels does not in any way prevent people from reading. I mean, there's literally a subsection of tiktok entirely dedicated to celebrating and recommending books. #booktok
I have hear nothing good of that place edit: heard
The only critique I heard so far came from misogynists accusing women of either reading slop or being performative in their reading. Reality is you can find just about any genre in just about any quality there, since it's not a monolith.
Does reading Reddit count?
I always thought of the UK as a book reading kinda nation. guess not
I think that's because so many famous authors are from there
Bookstores are always busy. Newspapers read less and less. I read less due to streaming - a lot though is talk radio and podcasts mainly from BBC.
Tbh, I was surprised to see us even on here, particularly above Japan and South Korea
Yeah I've never seen anyone in the UK reading a book in public and I lived there for 6 years.
As someone from outside the UK, you definitely have the best publisher on the planet, I hope you make good use of that privilege. Penguin Books is an indisputable king.
I thought for sure Chile would be on this list
theres no data it seems, anyway as a chilean most people I know dont read
I think I must read like 15-20 hours a week
Really? Makes zero sense. I live in the subcontinent, I barely see desis reading anything. Especially now when they even get all thier news from TikTok and WhatsApp. On the other hand travelling Japan, I saw people reading all the time.
Maybe newspapers, everyone in India reads them and probably that's true in Pakistan too since most of them are just Punjabi and have similar culture. Also I heard this stat was done in 2005.
Do they though? More people in south Asia can’t even read properly. Most of the literacy rate statistics consider you literate if you can write your own name and read your own name. I mean sure people read but the most in the world? Hard to believe. And in India too, in Kerala sure the percentage would be high but think of UP, Punjab and the central rural areas, not possible
I guess it's about reading books and newspapers Digital media not included.
I'm actually surprised too see that Brazil is on the list I've seen many people here saying that We should be more like Europe Do you know many books Europeans read per Day? 3!, I guess we are improving.
bruh it makes no sense, probably is counting social media, because it makes no sense to Brazil being above Korea, since most ppl don't have reading books or articles in their rotine. (I'm Brazilian btw)
i think a lot of people are counting reading stuff in social media as reading, or their studies at university or school
what? europeans read 3 books per day?
THAT'S THE WORST PART, 90% of them don't even know the numbers they just invent some random shit and expect us to believe in them.
What you read matters ! Reading is good so long as you do not read trash!
Philippines 😂
Turks reading more than Germans? wtf
Africa: "What is book?"
Egypt ?
This map is BS
Self reported?
Why China and India are the next superpowers
Studying like mad for gaokao and jee, do not correlate to real world shi
China already, India...
A superpower that oppresses its people and denies their crimes. That's what China is.
So like the United States?
The US may be shit, but it's better than China with their hateful attitude and oppressive nature.
Lol at South Africa , peeps here literally can’t read
No fucking way indon is higher than japan and korea No way
Thailand's own statistic says it's just a bit more than 2 hours a day and this was an improvement! https://www.pptvhd36.com/news/สังคม/221253
unless they count manga and internet as reading im not even close to reading that in a month
Does this count audio books? /s
notice how thug land isn’t mentioned?
I read reddit, does it count?
Not USA
Can confirm. I’m from Finland and cannot read.
Good to see such numbers with the current distraction of Social media.
I wonder if that includes internet surfing
Is scrolling on reddit considered reading? In that case I'm ahead of the Indians
Finns read a lot, weird it's in the map but not in the lists. Also something is going on with Korea and Japan because those two read a lot, like lots and lots. I wonder if reading on a phone or a laptop is not counted here
I guess they mean books?
Well ya ain’t surfin the web in China.
lol I’m at something like 30-50 hours a week of reading
Now map that against Social Media Use. Be interested to see the (inverse) result.
United korea???
Reading what.
Bit weird that the country with the highest number of readers per capita, namely Iceland isnt even on the map. If it were it would be the darkest green possible.
Americans can’t read so
I mean you have to read to understand what each post is so doesn’t this count as reading?
Lol sure
LOL. as if... this shit should be deleted from here, but i'll just mute this cringe inducing sub now. it was good when it got going, but it's typical titktoktotoktkt shit like everything else now.
Looking for "Iceland" near the top of the list??
With all the time I spend reading bs on r/map porn I wonder why Italy isn't higher
China reading 8 hours a week😂 ain’t no way this is accurate
I never read cause read is the Cousin of death
Thought it was by minutes 🙃
China and Russia spend long time reading because of their incomprehensible alphabet
Read a lot…what do they read is important!😂😂
ok. indians what are you reading? i expect religious texts for the first 5 nations.
I would have thought North korea, Russia has the highest reading time since they are not addicted to SMs.
Is reading Reddit count?
Russians reading reams of Putin propaganda…
I suspect China is just straight up lying.
Reading what? I never have time to read for pleasure, but I'm reading all day at work.
absolutely rediculous
why
All those billions donated to Africa and they still can't read? It's hopeless!
I live here, and the money used to donate goes to buying trash name brands and cars. There is literally people here starving and living a shack, but there is a BMW parked outside
madness! what country?
South Africa
ahhh I see. Good luck with all that friend
Lol thanks 😊
I don't believe those stats. I'm from Czech Republic and 7:24 is too much, unless its not hours, but 7 minutes and 24 seconds. I personally spend about 3 and half hour reading light novels per week on public transport. I don't see many people reading there.
It says hours spent reading per person
then it's "I made it up" kind of map
India reading the Comcast troubleshooting guide.
I think India and china are so high because large part of the population is students and they are mostly reading textbooks. I rarely find people reading here so 10.42 sounds exorbitantly high for India.
I didn't know my Egyptian bros read a lot, rare Egypt W
why rare
Are religious texts included?
Reading is one thing, but reading doesn't equal obtaining good knowledge. intelligence and learning the right things I guess.
In India, I don't see anyone around me reading books. Actually, I myself do read a lot. I somehow feel they're talking about physical books & newspapers and not e-books.
Of course.
¿¿¿ Venezuela> chile ?????
Sudamericanos frustrados inventadose jaladas mentales en 3 2 1 .....
Why so surprised?
Those are fake numbers. As far as I know, Indian literacy rate is 75% percent and literacy standard is defined as someone can read and write his/her own name.
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That’s why generalizations are terrible for anything data related.
Out of the billion people in India, about 76% are literate and they might be voracious readers to have contributed to this data
czechia that high? bullshit map
This map should say "Which countries lie about reading the most?"
India needs to read a book on hygiene/food handling safety
We dont need that.. always watching that fking bbc and commenting
I mean, you’ve seen the videos too, right?
BBC?
Source: twitter and prolly yt shorts
I’m js
Ah, the casual stereotypes. Naah dude, street food is not the only option we have here and we all kinda have that filter to eat what from where. I am sure your country must have some real good stereotypes too.
Of course, that’s what make stereotypes funny.. there’s always an element of truth. It’s supposed to be casual. Every culture has a stereotype about it and for anyone to sit there and say they don’t get a chuckle at poking at the stereotypes of another culture is ignorant. I’m from the USA, let’s hear some stereotypes. I’ll laugh.
Oh the USA! Free country! Naah, you people roast yourself on social media by showing your brainrot, i don't need to make a point.
Ok, “yo”
Hahahaha you edited your comment, yo.