What percentage of Europeans read at least one book per year?

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For a lot of people, reading books is one of their favourite past times. The number of books people read per year, varies greatly per person, but also per country. On this map we’re going to look at the share of each countries population that reads at least one book a year.

In most European countries, the majority of people read at least one book per year. Especially as we go further north, more people read at least one book per year. The Swiss (80.6%), Luxembourgers (75.3%), Danes (72.2%), Norwegians (71.0%) and Estonians (70.7%) are the most avid readers in Europe.

The lowest shares can be found in southeastern Europe. Romanians (29.4%), Turks (30.3%) and Cypriots (33.1%) read far less than the rest of Europe.

Data for this map comes from Eurostat.