In 1995, UNESCO declared April 23 World Book Day, or rather a day that marks the global celebration of reading in all its forms. It is also the date when the greatest writers such as Cervantes and Shakespeare died.
As reported by Euronews, Eurostat research has established that Slovakia is at the top of the list of countries whose citizens spend the most money on purchasing books. Croatia, Germany, Estonia, Latvia and Iceland follow suit. On average, Europeans spend 1.1 percent of their income on books.
According to Eurostat’s report, Cyprus is at the bottom of the list, whose residents spend 0.4 percent of their income on books, while Greece, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia are just above them, more precisely, their citizens spend only 0.5 percent of their income on buying books.
As far as time spent reading books goes, Estonia tops the list with an average Estonian spending 13 minutes a day reading. They are followed by the Finnish, the Poles and the Hungarians. Surprisingly, the French are at the very bottom of the list as they spend only 2 minutes a day on average reading books. People in Serbia spend, on average, 5 minutes a day reading.
(Politika, 07.03.2023)
https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/541365/Koliko-trosimo-na-knjige