WORLDS NEWSPRINT SUPPLY
UNITED STATES USES MORE THAN HALF NEW YORK. Of slightly over 10.Q00.000 tons of newsprint produced in the world in 1n54.l n 54. almost 5.5 million tons were used in the United States. .The next largest consumer was the United Kingdom. which used some 840.000 tons, followed bv Japan using 424.000. Canada 407.000'. and France and Western Germany, using around 350.000 tons each. No comparable figures are available for production or consumption in the Soviet Union.
The circulation of daily newspapers per 1000 of the population, however, was highest in the United Kingdom, where it reached 570 copies. This is explained by the fact that United States newspapers, though relatively fewer, are larger. Next in newspaper circulation were Sweden. Norway. Australia, and Japan, all with over 400 copies per 1000 inhabitants, and the United States with 339. In the publishing of books. Japan and the United Kingdom were easily in the lead with more than 19.000 titl s. followed by Western Germany with more than 16.000. and the United States with 11,000. These figures are given in the United Nations Statistical Yearbook for 1955, which was published recently.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28008, 30 June 1956, Page 11
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