List of newspapers by circulation

This is a list of paid daily newspapers in the world by average circulation. Worldwide newspaper circulation figures are compiled by the International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations and World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. This list shows the latest figures that are publicly available through either organisation.

Some figures are disputed; the numbers for Japanese newspapers have been subjected to claims of "oshigami" (exaggeration by over-supplying papers to businesses).^[1] Free newspapers are not counted.

Top newspapers by circulation

This list below shows paid newspaper dailies by circulation worldwide. The data is compiled from WAN-IFRA's World Press Trends 2016 report.^{[2][3][note 1]}

Position	Newspaper	Country	Language	Circulation (thousands)
1	The Yomiuri Shimbun	Japan	Japanese	9 101
2	The Asahi Shimbun	Japan	Japanese	6 622
3	USA Today	USA	English	4 139
4	Dainik Bhaskar	India	Hindi	3 818
5	Dainik Jagran	India	Hindi	3 308
6	The Mainichi Newspapers	Japan	Japanese	3 166
7	Cankao Xiaoxi	China	Chinese	3 073
8	Amar Ujala	India	Hindi	2 935
9	The Times of India	India	English	2 836
10	The Nikkei	Japan	Japanese	2 729
11	People's Daily	China	Chinese	2 603
12	The Chunichi Shimbun	Japan	Japanese	2 452
13	Hindustan	India	Hindi	2 410
14	Malayala Manorama	India	Malayalam	2 343
15	The Wall Street Journal	USA	English	2 276
16	Bild	Germany	German	2 220
17	The New York Times	USA	English	2 134
18	Guangzhou Daily	China	Chinese	1 880
19	Nanfang City News	China	Chinese	1 853
20	Rajasthan Patrika	India	Hindi	1 812

Historical data

Worldwide circulation figures for previous years can be seen from WAN-IFRA and IFABC here.

• WAN-IFRA World Press Trends 2014 (Figures available for 2014)^[4]

• World Press Trends Database (Figures available from 2010 to 2017)^[5]

• IFABC National Newspapers Total Circulation 2013 (Figures available from 2008 to 2012)^[6]

See also

• Lists of newspapers
• List of newspapers in Australia by circulation
• List of newspapers in Canada by circulation
• List of newspapers in India by circulation
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation
• List of newspapers in the United States

Notes

1. Some figures are disputed; the numbers for Japanese newspapers have been subjected to claims of "oshigami" or exaggeration by over-supplying papers to businesses.

References

1. The Australian: Omens from the shrinking Japanese newspaper business
2. Milosevic, Mira (2016). "World Press Trends 2016" (PDF). WAN-IFRA. p. 58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-15. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
3. "World Press Trends 2016: Facts and Figures". wptdatabase.org. WAN-IFRA. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
4. Milosevic, Mira; Chishlom, Jim; Kilman, Larry; Teemu, Henriksson (2014). "World Press Trends 2014" (PDF). WAN-IFRA. p. 37. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
5. "Summaries | World Press Trends Database". wptdatabase.org. WAN-IFRA. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
6. "National Newspapers Total Circulation" (XLS). ifabc.org. International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Certification. December 20, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2018.