Book reading at its lowest in 40 years – Listening to audio books has increased

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2025-06-25 8.00

Since the early 1980s, book reading has decreased in the population from 40 percent who read a book every week in their free time, to 31 percent in 2021. Instead, listening to audiobooks has increased.

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Read more in the report Book reading in Sweden 1982–2024 (pdf).

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