The number of reading books in the world is declining!

Ralf A. Pir
3 min readFeb 7, 2022

In recent years, literacy rates have started to decline in most parts of the world.

For example, the number of readers in the US has dropped from 15.2 books per year to 12.6.

College graduates dropped from 21.1 books to 14.6 in 2021.
The average US woman reads 4 fewer books, from 19.3 to 15.7.
Americans today only read 17 minutes a day compared…

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