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Australia vs Japan: Number of new book titles published per million people

Australia
609.36 book titles per million people
in 1994
Japan
447.46 book titles per million people
in 1996
Australia rank
28th
Japan rank
31st

Number of new book titles published per million people over time

  • Australia
  • Japan
0200400600159717961996

How they compare

Australia currently reports 609.36 book titles per million people against 447.46 book titles per million people in Japan, a difference of 161.9 book titles per million people.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.4 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1937 it was Japan ahead.

Australia ranks 28th and Japan ranks 31st of 68 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Number of new book titles published per million people
Unit
book titles per million people
Source
Jonathan Fink-Jensen, IISH Data Collection (2015) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
69 places, 8,270 data points, 1500–2009
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The number of new book titles published per year, per million inhabitants.