According to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, there are more than 569. 6000 libraries. The most ' library ' continents - Europe (more than 440 thousand. libraries and their branches and offices - that is, places where you can temporarily borrow a book or magazine ) and North America ( more than 125 thousand. ). Least of all libraries in Africa - only 1. two thousand. library branches. The libraries of the world has about 807 thousand. people (363 thousand. in North America, 326 thousand. - In Europe, 242 thousand. - In Asia). The world spends on libraries of approximately $ 8. 7000000000000. per year. The total length of the shelves in the libraries of the world is about 15 thousand. km. At the same time have the longest shelf library Asia - 9 th. km. For Europe, the figure is 350 km to North America - 750 km. For this indicator, the last place in the world was South America - 25 miles.
The libraries of the world holds more than 20 billion. books, a. 5000000000. microfilm and more than 10 billion. units of periodicals (newspapers, magazines, etc. ). Most libraries have rich collections of Europe (more than 16 billion. items), North America (12. billion. ) And Asia (1. 5000000000. ). In this case North America ranked first in the world in the number of library books, and Europe - the size of newspaper and magazine collections.
Library subscribers are about 2. 5000000000. people (according to U.S. Census Bureau \\ US Census Bureau, now the world's population exceeds 6. 5000000000. ). According to this index is the undisputed leader in Europe - a. 8000000000. man. In second place - Asia ( 215 million. ), The third - North America ( 77 million. ).
Annually, the library produces a. 5000000000000. Operations on the issue of the subscribers of books, magazines, CDs and T. Dr.. The most loaded libraries of Europe (1. 1000000000000. ), Asia ( 82 billion. ) And North America ( 66 billion. ). For comparison, in South America 48 million books issued. once a year ( ten times less than in Africa ).
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics \\ UNESCO Institute for Statistics, one of the countries with the largest number of library books per capita are: Georgia - 16,335 books in a thousand. inhabitants of the country, Monaco (respectively, 9781 ), Liechtenstein ( 4968 ), San Marino ( 3704 ), Iceland ( 2831 ), Armenia ( 2295 ), Estonia ( 1714 ), Luxembourg ( 1707 ), Lithuania . Belarus - to 19 -m site (667 to 1 thousand. population), Moldova - by 21 - m ( 598), Kyrgyzstan - to 22 - m ( 576), Russia - by 26 - m ( 513), Azerbaijan - to 29 - m ( 467), Kazakhstan - by 41 -m . For comparison, Israel - to 28 -m site, UK - 30 th, Germany - 31 th, Italy - on the 42nd, Japan - on the 59th, the U.S. - to 92 -m. On average, one thousand. 832 inhabitants of the earth have. Five library books.
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