Books Statistics
17 interactive books charts — free to explore, filter, download & embed
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ANYSTAT's books collection runs to 17 datasets,
including Most Visited Libraries in the World, Largest Libraries in the World by Collection Size and Countries with the Lowest Adult Literacy Rates.
Each one is sourced, explorable year by year, and switchable between bar, line, area, map and table
views — free to download as an image or CSV, or embed on your own site.
Curated
All Time
New York
Toronto
National
Boston P
Library
Nation's
18.0
New York Public Library
Most Visited Libraries in the World
New York Public Library reports the most visitors at 18.00 million a year, ahead of Toronto Public Library on 13.40 mill...
Curated
All Time
Mauritan
Liberia
Benin
Guinea
Burkina
Central
Countries with the Lowest Adult Literacy Rates
Chad has the lowest adult literacy rate in this ranking at about 22.3 percent, meaning only around one in five adults ca...
Curated
All Time
The Bibl
Quotatio
The Qur'
The Book
Bhagavad
Most-Printed Books in History (Estimated)
The Bible stands far above every other book, with an estimated 5 billion or more copies printed and distributed, several...
Curated
All Time
British
Library
Nation's
Russian
Shanghai
New York
200.0
British Library (UK)
Largest Libraries in the World by Holdings
The British Library holds the largest collection in the world at about 200 million items, narrowly ahead of the United S...
Curated
All Time
Codex Le
U.S. Con
Letters
Book of
Letter f
Codex Sa
66.9
Codex Leicester (da Vinci)
Most Expensive Books & Manuscripts Ever Sold
Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester tops this ranking at about 66.9 million dollars, the notebook famously bought by Bil...
Curated
All Time
The Tale
The Very
Where th
Love You
Goodnigh
The Poky
45.0
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Potter)
Best-Selling Children's Picture Books
Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit leads at about 45 million copies, just ahead of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry C...
Curated
All Time
One Piec
Doraemon
Golgo 13
Case Clo
Dragon B
Naruto
Best-Selling Manga Series of All Time
Eiichiro Oda's One Piece is the best-selling manga ever at roughly 600 million copies, twice the total of the series tie...
Curated
All Time
William
Agatha C
Barbara
Danielle
Harold R
Georges
4,000
William Shakespeare
Best-Selling Fiction Authors of All Time
William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie top this ranking together, each with an estimated 4 billion copies sold, far ahe...
Curated
All Time
Harry Po
Goosebum
Perry Ma
Diary of
Berensta
Choose Y
600.0
Harry Potter (Rowling)
Best-Selling Book Series of All Time
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter dominates all book series at an estimated 600 million copies, 200 million ahead of R.L. Stin...
Curated
All Time
A Tale o
The Litt
The Alch
Harry Po
And Then
Dream of
200.0
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Best-Selling Single-Volume Books of All Time
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince share the top of this list at ar...
Curated
All Time
The Bibl
The Litt
Pinocchi
Alice in
Andersen
Don Quix
World's Most Translated Books of All Time
The Bible heads the table on 3,500, ahead of The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery) (386) and Pinocchio (Collodi) (300) in La...
Curated
2024
RELX / E
Thomson
Wolters
Pearson
Penguin
Hachette
Top Book Publishers by Annual Revenue 2024
RELX / Elsevier (UK) heads the table on 8, ahead of Thomson Reuters (7.20) and Wolters Kluwer (5.80) in Annual Revenue (...
Curated
2024
Romance
Crime &
Science
Children
Literary
Non-Fict
Best-Selling Book Genres Worldwide 2024
Romance Fiction (1.44), Crime & Thriller (1.12) and Science Fiction / Fantasy (0.98) take the top three in Global Revenu...
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All Time
Agatha C
Jules Ve
William
J.K. Row
Hans Chr
Danielle
Most Translated Authors in History
Agatha Christie (103), Jules Verne (100) and William Shakespeare (100) take the top three in Languages Translated Into....
Curated
All Time
The Bibl
Pinocchi
The Litt
Alice in
Don Quix
Harry Po
Most Translated Books in History
The Bible heads the table on 3,500, ahead of Pinocchio (300) and The Little Prince (300) in Number of Languages Translat...
About Books statistics on ANYSTAT
This page collects 17 interactive books
datasets in one place — useful for research, articles, presentations,
and quick fact-checks. Instead of static images, each chart is fully interactive: hover any data
point to read the exact value, switch chart types with a single click, and compare categories or
years side by side.
Every books chart includes a written analysis, the key findings,
category rankings, how the figures were calculated, and a link to the original data source
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