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.Wresch, William. Have and Have-Nots in the Information Age. Rutgers University Press, 1996, p. 39. 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. 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"
Rank Country Year Titles Notes References 1 2015 470,000 New titles and re-editions 2 2015 338,986 New titles and re-editions 3 2018 188,000 New titles and re-editions 4 2017 139,078 New titles and re-editions 52020135,081 6 2019 115,171 Российское книгоиздание в 2019 г.: удержать равновесие (unkniga.ru, 12.04.2020) 7 2018 106,799 8 2018 102,691 New titles and re-editions 9 2013 90,000 Total; revised editions not included; 26% in Hindi, 24% in English, and the rest in other Indian languages 10 2017 89,962 New titles and re-editions (ediciones y reimpresiones) Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds) 11 2019 75,667 New titles and re-editions ("Derlenen Kitap Sayısı") Ministry of Culture and Tourism 12 2015 65,886 New titles and re-editions 13 2024 65,717 Including 58,346 first editions German Booksellers Association 14 2018 63,476 New (In Korean) 15 2018 46,829 16 2025 36,942 New 17 2014 28,234 18 2010 28,084 43,258 total Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan) , 2011 Publication Yearbook. (In English) 19 2009 24,589 20 2019 24,416 21 2015 23,658 New titles and re-editions 22 2015 21,130 34,920 total Polish Book Institute . 23 2025 19,260Including 11,518 non-fiction books and 7,742 fiction books 24 2019 17,330 25 2017 17,066 18,508 total 26 2015 15,354Declined since 2013 at 19,987 27 2008 14,984 28 2018 14,625 29 2005 14,603 30 2021 13,255 31 2024 12,979 32 2015 12,208New titles and re-editions 33 2007 12,000+ 34 2019 11,897 35 2012 11,645 36 2017 10,068 National statistical institute of Bulgaria 37 2015 9,480New titles and re-editions 38 2006 9,400 ČTK 29.07.2007 16:54, Slovak Newspaper Pravda 39 2013 8,411 40 2024 8,350 41 2020 8,205 National Book Chamber of Belarus (In Belarusian) 42 1996 8,056 43 1996 7,868 44 2025 7,623 45 2012 7,521 23,948 total 46 2002 6,826 47 2018 6,750 Only trade sector data; educational sector data not available 48 2012 5,641 6,045 total 49 1995 5,418 UNESCO "Africa" , Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics 50 2025 5,197Including 3,296 printed books and 1,901 e-books 51 2015 5,130New titles and re-editions 52 2015 4,173New titles and re-editions 53 1996 4,115 54 2006 4,101 55 2008 3,955 L’industrie du livre et l’offre de lecture en Algérie 56 2012 3,811 Total; 2,943 in Urdu and 868 in English THE PAKISTAN NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 2012 57 2005 3,686 Lebanon - Book Production Data 58 2018/2019 3,677 59 1993 3,660 60 2003 3,600 New Zealand gov publications| 6119963,406 62 2018 3,231 63 2025 3,135 64 2010 2,854 4,164 total 65 1990 2,7956620152,791New titles and re-editions67 20242,457https://statistica.gov.md/files/files/publicatii_electronice/Anuar_Statistic/2025/Anuar_2025.pdf 68 2015 2,387New titles and re-editions 69 2018 2,275 70 2025 2,196 71 2018 2,158 72 2001 2,000| 73 2018 1,866 74 2019 1,767 75 2018 1,578 76 2018 1,455 77 1991 1,314 78 1996 1,226 79 2004 1,138 80 2018 1,042 81 1996 1,003 82 2018 1,007 83 2018 992 84 2015 970 85 2018 940 86 1996 93087 2025813 88 1996 720 89 2018 661 90 1996 542 91 1996 511 92 2015 491New titles and re-editions 93 1994 450 94 1995 404 95 1994 401 UNESCO "Oceania" , Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics 96 1996 396 97 1991 390 98 1993 293 99 1996 288 100 1992 285 101 1991 240 102 1992 232 103 1996 228 104 1996 209 105 1992 196 106 1990 172 107 1991 158 108 1996 132 109 1991 122 110 1996 119 111 1996 117 112 1996 114 113 1990 106 114 2018 102 115 2009 91 116 1995 88 117 1994 84 118 1996 80 119 1992 69 120 1992 64 121 1994 57 122 1996 47 123 1980 46 Whitney, G. (1989). The UNESCO book production statistics. Book Research Quarterly, 5(4), 12–29. 124 1996 42 125 1990 41 126 1996 40 127 1992 28 128 2018 27 129 1994 26 130 1995 22 131 1995 14 132 1996 14 133 1996 12 134 1996 7
Total: approximately 2,660,000
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 countryRankCountry20222021202020181 3,279,2172,884,6093,931,2703,485,3222 902,311184,985114,27295,1293 338,237340,506329,5824 281,091129,3265 277,000284,000284,0006 263,0667 179,042114,11495,3368 153,167168,960188,553185,7219 139,970142,267135,133137,39710 107,856159,330144,79311 124,454103,82612 99,99513 95,81195,98580,70486,87214 89,88890,00015 83,65387,23178,50067,13516 61,00017 59,28362,25140,1056,14318 39,18339,47919 37,33834,98434,01620 35,50034,25627,69427,42821 34,98526,59726,36722 31,70833,46432,11423 27,53423,30420,92527,63524 25,98025 25,39113,34211,22126 22,62227 21,11521,37928 20,84020,34718,92520,86729 20,33930 19,36218,22517,95220,48431 14,60312,06512,58632 14,39218,30013,9002,46533 12,73813,08511,69834 10,29835 9,8899,4976,51036 9,69125,72223,64037 9,65638 9,49039 9,0339,3248,5999,20940 8,3107,8855,69841 8,2888,5288,35342 7,1797,2606,78543 6,70544 5,1284,4774,2644,74445 4,78546 4,7485,1874,81047 3,7943,9163,33148 3,4113,5413,39149 3,17450 3,14351 2,8553,0502,18652 2,7862,6972,22053 2,5401,9001,60054 2,19355 2,16356 2,0002,2002,50057 1,9592,0071,72458 1,9442,3612,95059 1,9371,8531,76560 1,7181,5441,10361 1,47062 1,3191,59688463 1,2911,2581,0731,13764 1,2291,0321,13465 1,0301,11282366 85467 71966167568 39531141269 388
References
See also Books published per language per annum
Further reading Wresch, William. Have and Have-Nots in the Information Age. Rutgers University Press, 1996.
External links Fink-Jensen, Jonathan (2015). Book Titles per Capita. (Excel dataset for the period from 1500 until 2010 CE, worldwide)