IntervaOpen the desk

UIS · Education

Japan: Proportion of youth and adults that read or downloaded newspapers, magazines or electronic books in digital format, adjusted location parity index

0.85parity index (1 = parity) · 2022

Proportion of youth and adults that read or downloaded newspapers, magazines or electronic books in digital format, adjusted location parity index (LPIA). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator ICTSKILLDLDONLD.LPIA. Annual figures for Japan from 2013 to 2022.

20132022

Every year

YearValue (parity index (1 = parity))Note
20220.849
20210.859
20200.868
20190.804
20180.837
20170.788
20160.794
20150.642
20140.8
20130.673

Source

Published by UIS, produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

UIS (2026). Proportion of youth and adults that read or downloaded newspapers, magazines or electronic books in digital format, adjusted location parity index. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-ictskilldldonld-lpia (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

CSV, all countriesJSON, JapanAPI and MCP

Proportion of youth and adults that read or downloaded newspapers, magazines or electronic books in digital format, adjusted location parity index in other countries

Rank Japan against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Japan: Proportion of youth and adults that read or downloaded newspapers, magazines or electronic books in digital format, adjusted location parity index (2013–2022) · Interva