During a survey held in early 2021, it was found that 83 percent of adults aged between 18 and 29 years old had read a book in any format in the previous year, up by two percent from the share who said the same in 2019. The survey results showed that adults within this age category were more likely than older respondents to have read a book within the last twelve months.

Book readers in the U.S.

While it is mostly believed that book reading is a vanishing pastime, particularly among Millennials, surveys among consumers in the U.S. have shown the opposite. The share of book readers in the U.S. has varied from 72 percent to 79 percent between 2011 and 2016.

In regards to age of book readers in the country, a 2016 survey shows about 80 percent of respondents between the ages of 18 to 29 had read at least one book in the previous 12 months, the highest share amongst all age groups. About 73 percent of the respondents aged between 30 to 49 years old said they read at least one book in the last 12 months. The share among respondents between 50 and 64 years old stood at 70 percent, whereas 67 percent of respondents aged 65 plus stated reading book during the time measured. In terms of education level, book readers in the U.S. are more likely to have a college degree, or at least some college education – 86 percent and 81 percent respectively. Women in the U.S. read slightly more than men; 68 percent of male respondents started reading at least one book in the previous 12 months, against 77 percent of female respondents that said the same.

Despite the rise of digital platforms and the rising popularity of e-reading devices such as Kindle, Kobo and others, printed books still remain the most popular book format in the U.S., as 65 percent of Americans stated preference for printed books in 2016. E-books were consumed by 28 percent of respondents in 2016, whereas audio books were listened by 14 percent of the respondents. Millennials accounted for the largest share of printed book readers in the U.S. – 72 percent as of 2016.

A survey examining book readership in the United States as of February 2021 showed that ** percent of 18-to-29-year-olds had read a print book in the last year. The share was slightly lower among older adults, though more than ** percent of respondents in each age group reported having read at least one printed book in the 12 months leading to the survey.

A survey held in early 2021 revealed that 42 percent of adults aged between 18 and 29 years old had read an e-book in the last we months, making respondents in this age group the most likely to have done so. By contrast, just 18 percent of adults aged 65 or above had read an e-book in the same time period.

According to the results of an early 2024 survey, ** percent of all book readers had read between one and five books in 2024. Consumers aged 65 and above were the most frequent readers, with ** percent having read ** books or more in the last year.

German teenage book reading frequency depends on age groups. ** percent of 12- to 13-year-olds read daily or several times a week, according to a recent survey. It appears that teenagers in that age group read the most often. The share of teenagers, who don't read at all, is largest in the age group of 18- to 19- year-olds, with around a 17 percent of them never indulging in reading. Nose stuck in a book? Generally, the number of people reading books daily or several times a week was dropping year after year, while the number of people who never read has been increasing slightly every year. A growing number of people also state that they do not buy books, though those who do still mainly buy paperbacks. This may be attributed to digitalization hitting the book industry and the understandable appeal of e-readers to an increasingly mobile nation. Next chapter The German book market is forecast to experience stable revenue development in the coming years, with the fiction segment generating the most, in comparison to textbooks and nonfiction. Changing consumption habits among readers and the rise of mobile devices and e-readers will continue to influence and change the book market.

The statistic shows data on the share of kids who have read a Harry Potter book in the United States as of October 2016, by age group. Overall, ** percent of kids in the U.S. have read a Harry Potter book. According to the source, ** percent of kids aged 15 to 17 have read a Harry Potter book.

A survey held in February 2022 revealed that most consumers never use newspapers as a source of news, and only 21 percent of adults aged 65 or above (those who engage with newspapers the most) reported reading newspapers every day. Newspapers are less popular as a news source than radio, and are also among the least used daily news sources among adults aged 18 years or older.

The average daily time spent reading by individuals in the United States in 2023 amounted to **** hours, or **** minutes. According to the study, adults over the age of ** were the most avid readers, spending over ** minutes reading each day. Meanwhile, those aged between 15 and 19 years read for less than **** minutes per day on average. Reading and COVID-19 Daily time reading increased among most consumers between 2019 and 2020, part of which could be linked to the unprecedented increases in media consumption during COVID-19 shutdowns. The mean annual expenditure on books per consumer unit also increased year over year, along with spending on digital book readers. Book reading habits A 2020 survey on preferred book formats found that ** percent of U.S. adults favored print books over e-books or audiobooks. However, engagement with digital books is growing. Figures from an annual study on book consumption revealed that the share of adults who reported reading an audiobook in the last year almost doubled between 2011 and 2019, and e-book readership also grew overall during that period.

A survey on local news consumption in the United Kingdom found that local weather and local news and current affairs were the main types of local news used by consumers aged 16 years or older, although engagement varied substantially by age. Whilst more than ** percent of adults aged 55 or above read or listened to local news and current affairs, for younger persons aged 16 to 24 years old the share dropped to below ** percent. Younger consumers were overall the least engaged with local news, regardless of type.

In 2022 there were more than 5.4 million book readers in Italy between the ages of six and 24 years who read at least one book in the last 12 months. By comparison, the corresponding figure for those aged 45 to 64 years stood at more than 6.7 million, with this age group also being the most likely to read several books per year.

The statistic displays the share of people reading at least one book or magazine in a month in Japan in 2016, broken down by age group. A look at the statistic reveals, that more than ********** of survey respondents claimed to read *** or more books or magazines in a month. The highest share of readers was among Japanese aged between 40 and 49, as well as ** and ** with about ** percent.

This statistic shows the share of respondents who indicated that they read books more than once a week in Singapore in 2016, by age group. During the period surveyed, those between 20 to 29 years of age, and those in the 30 to 39 years age group, had the highest percentage of respondents, ** percent each, indicating that they read books more than once a week. Respondents aged 60 years and above had the lowest share of participants, ** percent, saying that they read books more than once a week.

According to a survey held in 2022 in the United Kingdom, 38 percent of all respondents claimed they either downloaded or accessed e-books at least once a week, and 62 percent said they did so less often. Consumers aged 12 to 15 years old were most likely to read e-books very regularly, with 48 percent saying that they downloaded or accessed e-books most days or about once per week.

The statistic contains data from a survey on the share of adults who have read the work of selected poets in the United States as of April 2017. During the survey, 72 percent of respondents over the age of 55 stated they had read works by Edgar Allan Poe, compared to 53 percent of those aged between 18 and 24 years old. Similarly, 31 percent of adults aged 55 or above had read the work of Alfred Tennyson, as opposed to ten percent of 18 to 24 year olds.

Younger age groups were the most frequent readers of e-books in Norway in 2023, with five percent of 13 to 15 year old Norwegians and seven percent of 9 to 12 year old Norwegians having read e-books on an average day during that year. Meanwhile, the least likely people to read this form of books were adults aged 80 years or older.

According to a survey of online users in the United States conducted in 2022, *************** activities were one of the most common reasons for users aged between nine and 56 years to engage with email communications. Almost ***** in ** Millennials, as well as ** percent of Gen X users, and ** percent of Gen Z users reported using emails for online shopping. By comparison, users in the Boomer generation and the Silent Generation - now aged between 57 and 93 years - engaged with emails the most to correspond with friends and family.

The statistic shows a distribution of crime/mystery book readers across age groups in the United States in the first quarter of 2014. Mystery fiction had the largest popularity (** percent) among readers aged 65 or older.

Reading e-books in Sweden was most common among ** to 45-year-olds, according to a survey from the third quarter of 2020. Over one third used the internet to read e-books at least sometimes. Three percent of respondents of this age even read on a daily basis.

According to a survey conducted in April and May 2019, for approximately ** percent of Japanese smartphone users aged between 20 to 29 years old, video content was the type of online information they viewed most often. For more than ** percent of people in their *** on the other hand, online news was the type of information they read the most.

In 2024, Chinese children and adolescents read an average of ***** extracurricular books. Teens aged from 14 to 17 years read over **** books per person that year, the highest among other age groups below 18 years old. That year, the overall book reading rate of Chinese kids and teens amounted to **** percent.