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| == '''Published Books''' ==
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| The question about the total number of published book titles worldwide is basically unanswerable. Some books have been published in so small regions, small numbers or many centuries ago that nobody has kept a record of those books. Also definition of “published book” can be interpret many ways: should historical hand-written texts be treated as published books, and should counting start from the development of script by man thousands of years ago or from 15th century when book-printing was actually invented?
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| In year 2000, University of California attempted to figure out the number of original book titles worldwide, and they came up with the result of approximately 65 million original book titles. This number is based on estimate that US produces 40% of printed materials in the world and the national library of US (the Library of Congres) contains about 26 million books.
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| Worldwide increase of book titles has been each year 2-10%, and in US the number of titles has been increased every year, except in 1996, when there was 5% decrease.
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| '''Books published per country'''
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| UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) monitors standards of living and education in the world, and records the number of books published per country per year.
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| '''List of top 10 countries'''
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| Number of new titles per year, as of the latest year available.
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| 1. United Kingdom (2005) 206,000, (1996) 107,263 <br>
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| 2. United States (2005) 172,000, (1996) 68,175 <br>
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| 3. People's Republic of China (1994) 100,951 <br>
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| 4. Germany (1996) 71,515 <br>
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| 5. Japan (1996) 56,221 <br>
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| 6. Spain (1996) 46,330 <br>
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| 7. Russian Federation (1996) 36,237 <br>
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| 8. Italy (1996) 35,236 <br>
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| 9. France (1995) 34,766 <br>
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| 10.Netherlands (1993) 34,067
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