World's Most Translated Books of All Time
About This Dataset
World's Most Translated Books of All Time
Books ranked by the number of languages they have been officially translated into. The Bible is the most translated document in human history, with at least portions available in over 3,500 languages and the complete text in more than 700 — a feat of translation effort spanning millennia and representing the work of thousands of missionaries, scholars, and translators across every continent and nearly every language family on Earth.
Analysis
The Bible heads the table on 3,500, ahead of The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery) (386) and Pinocchio (Collodi) (300) in Languages Translated Into. 3,418 separates the highest figure (3,500) from the lowest (82). Most of that gap is between first and second alone (3,114 of 3,418); the other 7 are separated by just 304. Only 1 of the 8 reaches even half the leader's figure (1,750 or more).
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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The Bible leads in Languages Translated Into with 3,500.
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Average Languages Translated Into: 604 · median: 165.
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Gap: The Bible is 42.7× larger than The Adventures of Tintin (Herge).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Languages Translated Into
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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