Summary

World Press Trends 2007 is the most complete overview of newspaper markets worldwide since the first edition published in 1987.

This edition of World Press Trends contains reports on every country and territory in the world where newspapers are published. In addition to the 232 country reports, WPT includes a wealth of summaries that provide a detailed global picture of the newspaper world.

More than 1.4 billion people now read a newspaper daily. The number of daily newspaper titles and their circulation has been steadily growing over last five years. Paid-for daily titles surpassed 10,000 as early as in 2003 and grew continuously to above 11,000 in 2006. Global advertising expenditure in newspapers increased by almost 16 per cent over last five years, and by 3.8 per cent in 2006 compared to the previous year.