According to the household cultural consumption report in 1399 (2020/21), Iranians spend an average of 13 minutes reading non-textbook books. Average monthly per-capita reading time is 8 hours and 18 minutes. Of this amount, 2 hours and 32 minutes are devoted to reading the Quran and prayers, and 6 hours and 32 minutes to reading non-textbook books.
In the household behavioral culture survey, reading the Quran and prayers is among people's priorities. Novels, adult short stories, psychology and education, and religious topics rank next.
The survey of people's familiarity with the Holy Quran was held at the 118th consultative assembly of the Quranic Culture Development Council in Aban (October–November) 1400 (2021/22). In this survey, per-capita recitation nationwide was reported as 109 minutes per week and 15 minutes per day. Recitation among Shiites and Sunnis, and also among different ethnic groups, was approximately the same, with no diversity in this regard.
According to the PEW 2012 survey, per-capita religious reading in neighboring countries such as Iraq is 46 percent and in Jordan 52 percent. A significant percentage of Muslims in Egypt and Indonesia have also included Quran reading in their daily routine.
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