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97:(WAN-IFRA) publishes a list of newspapers with the largest circulation. In 2011, India led the world in terms of newspaper circulation with nearly 330 million newspapers circulated daily. In 2010, China topped the list in term of total newspaper circulation with 110.78 million a day, ahead of India in second with 100.993 million, followed by Japan, with 50.4 million; the United States, with 48.5 million; and Germany, with 19.7 million. In the 2019 survey, among the top 10 newspapers, all were Asian newspapers and four were Japanese newspapers. 289: 27: 174:
In many developed countries, print circulation is falling due to social and technological changes such as the availability of news on the internet. On the other hand, in some developing countries circulation is increasing as these factors are more than cancelled out by rising incomes, population, and
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The heyday of the newspaper industry was the 1940s, but the percentage of Americans reading newspapers began to decline with the increased competition from radio, television and, more recently, the Internet. A growing population helped the absolute circulation numbers continue to increase until the
645:: The circulation department of a newspaper, in addition to soliciting subscriptions, also distributes them to subscribers to the print edition. The last step is newspaper delivery consisting of newspaper routes run either by motor vehicle or traditional adolescent "paper boys." 220:
The Belgian institution CIM (Centre for Information about Media) publishes national circulation figures for all written, audiovisual and web-based media in Belgium. The top ten best-selling papers according to their website
325:, which, as of the six-month period ending on March 31, 2007, averaged 634,886 copies sold on Saturday, 436,694 Monday to Friday, and 442,265 on Sunday. The second most widely read paper is Toronto-based national newspaper 335:, which averaged 319,899 copies on Saturday, 267,404 Monday to Friday, and 264,733 on Sunday. Unlike in the United States, newspapers in Canada published their biggest and mostly widely read editions on Saturdays. 622:
with 1,674,306. Overall, for the 593 reporting newspapers, daily circulation declined 0.7 percent year-over-year between March 2012 and March 2013. Sunday circulation was down 1.4 percent over the same period.
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from Kerala, currently has a readership of over 2.370 million (with a circulation base of over 2.4 million copies) has the most circulation in other languages.
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to assure advertisers that a given newspaper does reach the number of people claimed by the publisher. There are international
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publishes national circulation figures for every newspaper in Norway every year. In 2011 the most read newspaper was the
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This article is about a principal type of circulation as a measure of readership. For the other principal type, see
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English-language daily newspaper in the world, across all formats (Broadsheet, Compact, Berliner and Online).
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Searchable database of Canadian newspaper circulation figures from the Canadian Newspaper Association
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1970s, where it remained stable until the 1990s, when absolute circulation numbers began declining.
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has the highest circulation in Australia. Based in one of the country's two major cities,
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The 2022 circulation figures for the morning and evening editions of Japan's newspapers:
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averaged 82,595. In the top ten list it is followed by five local newspapers:
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Editor & Publisher Yearbook On-line with circulation statistics
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As of August 2016, the top 6 best-selling papers are respectively:
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the newspaper with the UK's highest paid circulation is the
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shows that the largest read local language newspapers to be
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and is thus one of the principal factors used to set print
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Opplagstallene for aviser, magasin og ukeblader for 2011
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List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation
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List of newspapers in the United States by circulation
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exceeded 21,500,000 in 1990, while the Soviet weekly
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rates (prices). In many countries, circulations are
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The Front Pages of the Main Newspapers of the World
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World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
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Library circulation

publication
proxy measure
readership
advertising
audited
Audit Bureau of Circulations
open access
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
Yomiuri Shimbun
Asahi Shimbun
largest circulated
The Times of India
largest circulated
Reference News
Guinness Book of Records
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Argumenty i Fakty
List of newspapers in Australia by circulation
The Herald Sun
Melbourne

Het Laatste Nieuws
Het Nieuwsblad
SUD Presse
Het Belang van Limburg
Le Soir
La Dernière Heure
De Standaard

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