{"id":4504,"date":"2024-06-24T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:19:34","slug":"regional-variations-in-reading-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/regional-variations-in-reading-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Variations in Reading Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"infographicArticle-32089\" class=\"article article--infographic article--infographic32089 row padding-top-15\" aria-labelledby=\"infographicArticleTitle\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<header class=\"article__header flex flex--directionColumnReverse\"><\/header>\n<footer class=\"article__meta\">\n<div class=\"article__topic showMobile text--wordBreak\">It\u2019s National Libraries Week in the United States, and we\u2019re exploring global reading patterns. According to data from Statista\u2019s Consumer Insights survey, women in selected countries are more likely than men to list reading as a personal hobby. Germany shows the widest gender gap (20 percentage points), followed by Spain and Italy (19 percentage points each). Spain leads with 58% of women considering reading a personal hobby, while in Mexico, 41% of men share this view.<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row margin-bottom-15\">\n<div class=\"width70 padding-right-15\">\n<div id=\"infographicDescriptionLong\" class=\"article__contentText responsiveText responsiveText--underlinedLinks\">\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/study\/21659\/reading-habits-in-the-us-statista-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>, 44% of women and 30% of men consider reading a main pastime. Across age groups in the U.S., the percentage of respondents who prioritize reading increases with age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"width30 padding-left-15 hideMobile\">\n<div class=\"article__contentEditor\">\n<div class=\"box contactBox sidebar float-s--none\">\n<div class=\"contactBox\">\n<div class=\"cInfo\">\n<p class=\"contactWorkingHours\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"article__contentGraphic panel-box panelBox--noPadding width100\">\n<div class=\"row flex\">\n<div class=\"flex_item width70 border-right-gray10-1 bg-white-smoke\">\n<div class=\"article__graphic\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__img margin-bottom-5n\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/32089.jpeg\" alt=\"Infographic: Where Reading is More (&amp; Less) Popular | Statista\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" data-open-modal=\"#infographicModal\" data-gtm=\"infographic__graphic\" aria-describedby=\"infographicDescriptionShort infographicDescriptionLong\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"hideNoscript hidePrint\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"box-container\">\n<p><em>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statista<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global reading habits exhibit notable gender differences, with countries showing varying gaps and age influencing reading priorities in the U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10858,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/10858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}