World Book Day

Where Europeans Read The Most And Least

World Book Day is organized every year on April 23 by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. To mark the occasion, Eurostat published some interesting figures about reading around Europe. People spend anywhere from 2 to 13 minutes per day reading books on average.

France had the lowest average length of time for book reading at 2 minutes a day while in Estonia, it's 13 minutes. In Finland and Poland time spent reading books comes to 12 minutes. In the UK and Italy, it's 6 and 5 minutes respectively.

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Time spent reading books daily in Finland from 2011 to 2021 (in minutes)
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Average daily time spent on reading books in Sweden from 2009 to 2018 (in minutes)
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Average daily time spent reading books in Norway from 2005 to 2023, by age group (in minutes)
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Average daily time spent reading books in Norway from 2009 to 2023 (in minutes)
Time spent reading books daily in Finland in 2021, by gender (in minutes)
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Average daily usage time of selected print media in Germany in 2014 (in minutes)

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