Year Scientific Educational Special literature Literature Juvenile and children’s literature Schoolbook Other Total Published book per hundred thousand inhabitants
Number of titles
1990 137 1,555 3,136 1,560 476 1,230 228 8,322 80.2
1991 137 1,443 3,147 1,399 486 1,233 288 8,133 78.4
1992 105 1,235 3,453 1,570 625 1,290 259 8,537 82.4
1993 159 1,125 3,636 1,767 769 1,409 305 9,170 88.6
1994 110 1,140 4,002 1,986 822 1,707 341 10,108 97.8
1995 103 1,125 3,621 1,869 791 1,424 381 9,314 90.2
1996 86 705 4,077 1,824 606 1,545 350 9,193 89.2
1997 140 977 3,766 1,817 534 1,757 352 9,343 90.9
1998 180 1,706 3,993 2,448 797 1,758 424 11,306 110.3
1999 29 1,325 3,073 2,268 664 2,446 547 10,352 101.3
2000 79 1,778 2,968 2,122 546 1,595 504 9,592 94.0
2001 96 1,958 2,754 2,329 459 1,095 332 9,023 88.7
2002 75 1,675 3,182 2,249 472 2,299 255 10,207 100.6
2003 115 1,387 2,977 2,165 531 2,001 321 9,497 93.9
2004 279 1,750 4,422 2,377 833 1,794 473 11,928 118.1
2005 182 1,700 4,544 2,745 956 2,996 476 13,599 135.0
2006 96 1,763 3,453 2,667 858 2,514 386 11,737 116.6
2007 190 1,714 4,327 3,324 1,170 2,325 550 13,600 135.4
2008 276 1,510 5,346 3,252 1,407 2,832 632 15,255 152.1
2009 119 1,295 4,526 2,962 1,175 2,787 698 13,562 135.4
2010 106 1,174 4,734 3,064 1,229 2,135 555 12,997 130.2
2011 98 1,246 3,994 3,000 1,424 2,237 457 12,456 125.4
2012 107 1,202 3,750 3,139 1,431 2,007 444 12,080 121.9
2013 184 1,175 3,440 2,934 1,481 2,254 489 11,957 120.6
2014 204 1,113 3,846 3,049 1,344 1,910 532 11,998 122.0
2015 175 1,564 4,100 3,336 1,562 1,623 593 12,953 132.2
2016 98 1,471 3,902 3,310 1,497 1,842 529 12,649 129.6
2017 61 1,166 3,808 3,382 1,621 1,568 681 12,287 126.3
2018 96 1,116 4,224 3,831 1,557 1,733 571 13,128 135.2
2019 91 1,187 4,221 3,551 1,902 2,434 515 13,901 143.4
2020a 138 1,230 4,831 3,908 1,945 2,115 527 14,694 151.9
2021 498 2,583 4,135 4,768 2,888 1,707 571 17,150 178.1
2022 455 2,902 4,016 5,008 3,058 1,731 606 17,776 185.1
2023 820 2,515 3,413 4,391 2,690 1,417 620 15,866 165.4
Copies, thousand
1990 129 31,352 7,133 47,009 15,294 22,219 2,605 125,741 1212.2
1991 83 23,669 7,483 31,735 10,886 22,572 3,536 99,964 963.6
1992 112 13,678 7,139 28,798 11,840 24,693 1,839 88,099 850.0
1993 187 9,842 8,013 26,062 12,460 18,553 2,040 77,157 745.5
1994 162 9,045 8,725 24,989 11,894 18,991 1,839 75,645 731.8
1995 106 8,466 7,172 19,641 11,012 18,648 1,878 66,923 648.4
1996 144 3,641 10,732 15,799 4,797 16,823 1,258 53,194 516.4
1997 196 4,946 7,682 14,615 3,267 16,419 1,229 48,354 470.4
1998 262 7,823 6,232 14,894 4,997 14,584 1,078 49,870 486.4
1999 55 5,810 4,749 12,471 3,359 19,439 1,384 47,267 462.4
2000 41 7,044 3,991 11,220 2,354 11,090 1,255 36,995 362.7
2001 71 6,917 3,710 12,568 2,111 7,146 746 33,269 327.0
2002 97 5,750 4,797 12,238 2,022 21,198 578 46,680 460.3
2003 71 4,919 4,354 9,874 2,303 11,440 649 33,610 332.2
2004 102 5,210 5,090 9,515 2,428 10,247 725 33,317 329.9
2005 70 5,381 5,615 10,522 3,398 16,808 830 42,624 423.0
2006 65 5,473 5,129 10,516 3,711 13,749 809 39,452 391.9
2007 112 6,746 6,638 12,023 4,574 12,671 1,060 43,824 436.3
2008 157 5,276 7,578 10,207 5,255 14,956 1,071 44,500 443.6
2009 71 4,015 5,523 8,114 3,639 15,218 1,046 37,626 375.7
2010 122 4,048 5,429 8,629 3,590 11,834 764 34,416 344.6
2011 135 3,998 4,771 8,206 4,396 12,085 660 34,251 344.9
2012 102 3,919 4,575 7,581 4,264 9,605 603 30,649 309.2
2013 96 3,307 3,335 6,446 4,204 9,556 646 27,590 279.5
2014 99 3,261 3,366 6,587 4,022 10,333 618 28,286 287.7
2015 109 4,006 3,591 6,689 4,349 9,495 655 28,894 294.9
2016 63 3,499 3,234 6,694 4,791 13,682 668 32,631 334.3
2017 50 2,568 3,367 6,658 4,340 9,244 688 26,915 276.7
2018 93 2,403 4,240 8,791 4,482 10,432 643 31,084 320.2
2019 89 2,443 4,104 7,428 5,088 12,003 538 31,693 326.9
2020a 36 2,487 3,797 6,126 5,417 9,400 761 28,025 289.8
2021 286 3,807 3,849 8,108 9,341 12,552 963 38,905 404.0
2022 279 4,549 4,715 8,824 10,514 14,037 979 43,898 457.0
2023 444 3,357 3,202 7,427 7,872 13,699 814 36,814 383.8

Footnotes

aFrom 2020 including data of reprints.

Explanation of symbols

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Break in series (limited comparability).
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