The figure went from 780 in 2018 to 3,936 in 2027 (up 405%).

Global downloads of books and reference books, 2018–2022, forecast to 2027
Year	Number of downloads in million
2018	780
2019	995
2020	1,648
2021	2,180
2022	2,596
2023	2,949
2024	3,256
2025	3,525
2026	3,749
2027	3,936

Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

About this data

The data on this page is global, collected by Namafar for comparison with Iran.

Iranian (Solar Hijri) years run from late March to March: 1404 = March 2025 to March 2026.

Details

Source: Statista; Statista Digital Market Insights
Year: 1402 (2023/24)
Industry: Books and publishing
Published: Nov 15, 2023

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