Worlds 100 largest newspapers by circulation
Infoporn:
Did you ever wonder which newspaper is the largest in the world and where it came from? I love the raw surprising facts (like that the largest company in the world by number of employees is the Indian Railways with a staff of more than 2.000.000..)
One of the things that surprises me here is that Greece has a larger newspaper than United States.
1. Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan) 14,532,694
2. Asahi Shimbun (Japan) 12,601,375
3. Sichuan Ribao (China) 8,000,000
4. Mainichi Shimbun (Japan) 5,845,857
5. Bild (Germany) 5,674,400
6. Chunichi Shimbun (Japan) 4,323,144
7. Sun (England) 3,718,354
8. Renmin Ribao (China) 3,000,000
9. Sankei Shimbun (Japan) 2,890,835
10. Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan) 2,705,877
11. Gongren Ribao (China) 2,500,000
12. Daily Mail (England) 2,387,867
13. Daily Mirror (England) 2,339,001
14. Chosun Ilbo (South Korea) 2,225,000
15. Dong-A Ilbo (South Korea) 2,150,000
16. Hokkaido Shimbun (Japan) 1,962,666
17. Eleftherotypia (Greece) 1,858,316
18. Xin Min Wan Bao (China) 1,750,000
19. Wall Street Journal (United States) 1,740,450
20. Yangcheng Wanbao (China) 1,730,000
21. Kerala Kaumudi (India) 1,720,000
22. Wen Hui Bao Daily (China) 1,700,000
23. USA Today (United States) 1,653,428
24. Joong-Ang Ilbo (South Korea) 1,550,000
25. Economic Daily (China) 1,500,000
26. Rodong Sinmun (North Korea) 1,500,000
27. Kyung-Hyang Daily News (South Korea) 1,478,537
28. Sports Nippon (Japan) 1,452,699
29. Shizuoka Shimbun (Japan) 1,442,310
30. Sankei Sports (Japan) 1,367,734
31. West Deutche Allgemeine (Germany) 1,313,400
32. United Daily News (Taiwan) 1,300,000
33. China Times (Taiwan) 1,270,000
34. O Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil) 1,230,160
35. Jang Daily (Pakistan) 1,200,000
36. Jang Lahore (Pakistan) 1,200,000
37. Akhbar El Yom/Al Akhbar (Egypt) 1,159,339
38. Hankook Ilbo (South Korea) 1,156,000
39. Hochi Shimbun (Japan) 1,119,031
40. Daily Express (England) 1,118,981
41. Los Angeles Times (United States) 1,067,540
42. New York Times (United States) 1,066,540
43. Tokyo Shimbun (Japan) 1,062,080
44. Daily Telegraph (England) 1,047,861
45. Nishinippon Shimbun (Japan) 1,041,104
46. Jiefang Ribao (China) 1,000,000
47. Nanfang Ribao (China) 1,000,000
48. Nongmin Ribao (China) 1,000,000
49. Zhongguo Qingnian Ribao (China) 1,000,000
50. Nikkan Sports (Japan) 984,058
51. Al Akhbar (Egypt) 980,000
52. Guangming Ribao (China) 950,000
53. Al Ahram (Egypt) 900,000
54. Al Goumhouriya (Egypt) 900,000
55. Seoul Shinmun (South Korea) 900,000
56. Xin Hua Ribao (China) 900,000
57. Verdens Gang (Norway) 870,267
58. Corriere della Sera (Italy) 868,266
59. Kyoto Shimbun (Japan) 839,499
60. Chugoku Shimbun (Japan) 831,165
61. Jang (Pakistan) 820,000
62. Times of India (India) 813,000
63. Kobe Shimbun (Japan) 810,353
64. Beijing Wanbao (China) 800,000
65. Hubei Ribao (China) 800,000
66. Jiefangjun Ribao (China) 800,000
67. Trybuna Slaska (Poland) 800,000
68. La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italy) 798,243
69. Ouest-France (France) 790,133
70. Holos Ukrainy (Ukraine) 768,000
71. The Times (England) 766,999
72. ABC (Spain) 765,668
73. Washington Post (United States) 759,122
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74. La Repubblica (Italy) 754,930
75. De Telegraf (Netherlands) 751,400
76. Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland) 750,000
77. Zero Hora (Brazil) 727,188
78. Diario dos Campos (Brazil) 725,000
79. New York Daily News (United States) 723,143
80. Sabah (Turkey) 722,950
81. Jornal da Tarde (Brazil) 709,793
82. Beijing Ribao (China) 700,000
83. Chongqing Ribao (China) 700,000
84. Clarin (Argentina) 700,000
85. Thai Rath (Thailand) 700,000
86. Zhejiang Ribao (China) 700,000
87. Diario Insular (Portugal) 684,143
88. Granma Internacional (Cuba) 675,000
89. Chicago Tribune (United States) 673,508
90. Daily Record (Scotland) 671,267
91. China Daily News (Taiwan) 670,000
92. The Daily Star (England) 650,406
93. Guangxi Ribao (China) 650,000
94. Malayala Manorama (India) 630,068
95. La Nacion (Argentina) 630,000
96. Hurriyet (Turkey) 615,579
97. Herald Sun (Australia) 600,000
98. Hurriyet (Pakistan) 600,000
99. Liaoning Ribao (China) 600,000
100. Oriental Daily News (Hong Kong) 600,000
Your numbers for Eleftherotypia in Greece are apparently off by a huge margin, Hans. Folks in this Metafilter thread have noted that you appear to have used *annual* circulation figures or something. Her’s a site that lists Eleftherotypia’s circulation in the Athens area at 28,598 daily and 68,217 Sunday. An error might explain the strangely high ranking.
Comment by Todd Morman — June 12, 2005 @ 10:01 pm
Hi Todd, yes I saw the discussion at Metafilter. Thanks for the information. I will make a new posting when I have made a new list with the correct information.
Nice site you have by the way!
Best
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — June 12, 2005 @ 10:21 pm
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I am very confused right now. I am sure that I found the figures last week here: http://www.wan-press.org/article2825.html?var_recherche=100+largest
I looked at it again and now the greek newspaper is gone!
Here is the correct list with numbers from 2003:
Rank Title Country Circulation (000)
1 Yomiuri Shimbun Japan 14,246
2 The Asahi Shimbun Japan 12,326
3 Mainichi Shimbun Japan 5,635
4 Nihon Keizai Shimbun Japan 4,737
5 Chunichi Shimbun Japan 4,571
6 Bild Germany 4,220
7 The Sun UK 3,461
8 Sankei Shimbun Japan 2,665
9 USA Today USA 2,603
10 Canako Xiaoxi (Beijing) China 2,530
11 The Chosun Ilbo South Korea 2,428
12 Tokyo Sports Japan 2,425
13 Daily Mail UK 2,411
14 The Joongang Ilbo South Korea 2,200
15 Times of India India 2,131
16 The Mirror UK 2,117
17 The Dong-A Ilbo South Korea 2,100
18 Nikkan Sports Japan 1,987
19 Hokkaido Shimbun Japan 1,947
20 The Wall Street Journal USA 1,821
21 Sports Nippon Japan 1,791
22 People’s Daily (Beijing) China 1,773
23 New York Times USA 1,673
24 Yangtse Evening News (Nanjing) China 1,650
25 Guangzhou Daily China 1,600
26 Dainik Bhaskar India 1,570
27 Yukan Fuji Japan 1,559
28 Yangcheng Evening News (Guangzhou) China 1,500
29 The Hankook Ilbo South Korea 1,500
30 Jagaran India 1,500
31 Shizuoka Shimbun Japan 1,474
32 Los Angeles Times USA 1,396
33 Hochi Shimbun Japan 1,390
34 Sankei Sports Japan 1,368
35 Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai) China 1,218
36 Malayala Manorama India 1,214
37 Chutian Metro Daily (Wuhan) China 1,213
38 Thai Rath Thailand 1,200
39 The Maeil Business Newspaper South Korea 1,110
40 Zeitungsgruppe WAZ Germany 1,064
41 The Washington Post USA 1,049
42 Gujarat Samachar India 1,041
43 Nishi-Nippon Shimbun Japan 1,033
44 Hindustan Times India 1,032
45 Nanfang City News (Guangzhou) China 1,030
46 Neue Kronen Zeitung Austria 1,018
47 Chicago Tribune USA 1,016
48 Daily Telegraph UK 1,003
49 The Korea Economic Daily South Korea 1,000
50 Beijing Evening News China 980
51 Daily Sports Japan 975
52 The Kyunghang Shinmun South Korea 950
53 Daily Express UK 930
54 AJ India 926
55 Hindu India 885
56 Ananda Bazar Patrika India 874
57 Qilu Evening News (Jinan) China 850
58 Punjab Kesari India 843
59 Eenadu India 839
60 Mathrubhumi India 829
61 Chugoku Shimbun Japan 828
62 Kyoto Shimbun Japan 823
63 Kobe Shimbun Japan 820
64 New York Daily News USA 811
65 Kom Chat Leuk Thailand 800
66 De Telegraaf Netherlands 795
67 Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News USA 791
68 The Dallas Morning News USA 787
69 Ouest France France 785
70 Jang Pakistan 775
71 Philadelphia Inquirer USA 768
72 Sandesh India 757
73 Nanfang Daily China 750
74 Daily News Thailand 750
75 The Sports Chosun South Korea 750
76 Houston Chronicle USA 739
77 The Detroit News/Free Press USA 720
78 Times UK 705
79 Corriere della Sera Italy 690
80 Boston Globe USA 680
81 Komsomolskaya Pravda Russia 674
82 Daily Star UK 673
83 Minneapolis Star Tribune USA 669
84 Long Island Newsday USA 665
85 Atlanta Journal Constitution USA 659
86 The Segye Times South Korea 650
87 Kahoku Shimpo Japan 632
88 Amar Ujala India 629
89 La Repubblica Italy 624
90 New York Post USA 620
91 Modern Express (Nanjing) China 610
92 The Newark Star Ledger USA 610
93 Thanthi India 609
94 Rajasthan Patrika India 605
95 Jin Evening News (Tianjin) China 600
96 Qianjiang Evening News China 600
97 The Busan Ilbo South Korea 600
98 Apple Daily Hong Kong 600
99 Dahe Daily China 600
100 The Arizona Republic USA 597
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — June 12, 2005 @ 10:31 pm
Just Fyi, your list seems to exclude many Northern European newspapers, for example Helsingin Sanomat (biggest newspaper in Finland) is read by over 800 000 people every weekday and over a million on Sundays. Dagens Nyheter, biggest paper in Sweden has similar numbers. And please noe that Finland only has less than 5.5 million people and Sweden around 9 million.
Comment by Kaari Jae — June 13, 2005 @ 3:17 am
The lack of Sunday papers skews the table considerably. For instance where’s the London Sunday Times?
Comment by NP — June 13, 2005 @ 8:14 am
“England” != “UK”
Comment by salmacis — June 13, 2005 @ 12:14 pm
Just echoing salmacis - please don’t confuse England and the UK, they really aren’t the same thing.
Comment by rjt — June 13, 2005 @ 11:59 pm
im portuguese. i read newspapers everyday. Diario Insular isn’t our biggest newspaper. Not even close.
Comment by joana — June 14, 2005 @ 4:41 am
This is off. One of the local newspapers (Le Journal de Montréal) has a circulation which ranges between one to two million units every day.
Comment by Yan Desjardins — June 14, 2005 @ 3:58 pm
It seems as if this list is based on single editions, instead of conglomerations like The New York Times Co. which owns many other newspapers (The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune and regional newspapers), broadcasting stations and digital services. Total revenues in 2003: $3.2 billion.
Comment by caprio — June 14, 2005 @ 4:04 pm
The Economist recently broke the 1,000,000,000 barrier but seems to be missing. How The Economist made a million
But I guess staples and a glossy coating make it a magazine to most people, rather than a weekly newspaper.
Comment by sumdumguy — June 14, 2005 @ 10:12 pm
next list: online news-sites & their domestic pageviews. Let’s see wat the result look then, should be interesting.
Comment by interestman — June 15, 2005 @ 11:25 pm
Good idea interestman. Did you read my post: http://www.newspaperindex.com/blog/2005/04/25/the-worlds-bloggiest-newspaper/
The same thing could be done with the worlds top 100. It is a huge task, but could be done during a weekend. Should we do it together?
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — June 15, 2005 @ 11:57 pm
would someone be able to let me know what is the best method of getting a story ran in all the largest circlating newspapers that is news worthy the world over.
I have caught out the NSW government covering up crimes against its civilians and have continuously tried to have these injustices resolved to protect more people becoming victims but even our Prime Minister John Howard has been told and has said he can’t help.
Its hypocritical of our Australia government to send troop to Iraq to give them a democracy because their government was committing crimes against its people when its own NSW state government is committing crimes against its citizens and covered up by corrupt politicians who have formed a conspiricy not to investigate these matters and sack all those involved, I even now call this group of politicians FAGS standing for Federation Against Government Sackings.
Please let me know as I’m sure people all over the world would like to know how corrupt our Australian government is.
Comment by david marselos — June 17, 2005 @ 7:07 am
1) Similar update list is available in World Press Trends 2005, unfortunately it does not include free dailies. Japonese circulation includes both morning and evening edition
2) No Greek daily newspaper has circulation over 110k.
3) It would be non-sense to includes Sunday newspaper > different frequency, not comparable.
4) The Economist is not a newspapers
5) Sweden, Finland max circulation is 500k, do not confuse readership and circulation!
Comment by Wilf — June 22, 2005 @ 3:13 pm
Your figures for Indian newspapers are off by a huge margin. The largest newspaper in India is Dainik Jagran which has a circulation of over 20 million.
Comment by Corrector of Maladies — June 29, 2005 @ 10:21 am
This is a good list but does anyone where i can get some FREE reliable data on major european/asian newspapers? Not only the top 100. And any info on website readership/rating?
cheers!
Comment by Paula — October 5, 2005 @ 8:26 pm
[…] Meanwhile the internet arm of El Mundo, Spain’s second-best selling daily in print, has the highest readership of all online European papers with 750,000 visitors a day, and is the most read title in the Spanish-speaking world. ‘Digital revenue is serious business … Online business is a growth business, while newspapers are not,’ echoed Helmar Hipp, regional director of Austria’s Voralberger Nachrichten, which draws 15 per cent of its revenue from the internet and related activities. (AFP, journalism.org,November 14, 2005) […]
Pingback by Newspaperindex - the blog | Newspapers of the world, media, free speech and update on the newspaper catalogue Newspaper Index » No Future for newspapers without digital services — November 14, 2005 @ 6:04 pm
hey folks,
do you know by any chance where i can find a list of the 10 or 5 highest ranking newspaper per country in europe or worldwide?
is there such a list at all?
Comment by Andrea — December 12, 2005 @ 8:19 pm
Hi, no I have not heard of such a list.
There is a lot of circulation data out there but not compiled like you need them. I guess you have to build your own list in a spreadsheet. - If you do I would like to see it when it is finished :-)
Best regards
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — December 13, 2005 @ 11:15 am
Hi - Does anyone know where I can get (relatively) up to date newspaper circulation data for Taiwanese newspapers? Seem to have drawn a blank as far as ABC goes.
Comment by lyn — January 26, 2006 @ 3:06 am
I found the same newspaper, Jang, listed at three places: 35, 36 and 61. The circulation figures are also very different.
Comment by M. A. Hameed — July 6, 2006 @ 10:51 pm
Here are the top English language:
http://randomdude.com/blog/threads/2215-Largest-Circulation-Newspapers
Comment by Dustin — November 25, 2006 @ 10:47 am