FACTOID # 5: Americans and Icelanders go to the cinema 5 times a year, on average. The average Japanese person goes only once.
 
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Europe > United Kingdom > Media

BRITISH MEDIA STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Average cost of local call 0.17 [10th of 151]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Applied sciences 17,106 Time series [1st of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature 22,104 Time series [1st of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology 5,199 Time series [1st of 73]
Cable TV subscribers 57 [15th of 18]
Cinema attendance 139,500,000 [8th of 78]
Fax machines 25.46 per 1,000 people [13th of 103]
Films produced 132 [8th of 50]
Households with television > % 97.5 % Time series [15th of 160]
Mobile phones 84.49 per 100 people [9th of 43]
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily 19,159,000 Time series [5th of 90]
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily 108 Time series [14th of 106]
Number of PCs 35,890 [4th of 169]
Phone subscribers 1,358.44 [8th of 178]
Radio receivers 84,500,000 Time series [5th of 188]
Radios 84,500,000 [5th of 221]
Television broadcast stations 228 Time series [7th of 89]
Television receivers 30,500,000 Time series [9th of 185]
Television viewing 28 hours per person per wee [2nd of 13]
Televisions 30,500,000 [9th of 215]

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SOURCES: ; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; OECD Communications Outlook 2005; UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003; The Information for Development Program; Internet Movie Database 2003; World Development Indicators database; International Telecommunication Union; ITU; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Figures for European countries are from Andries van den Broek, 'Leisure across Europe. Comparing 14 populations, conveying 1 pattern' (Paper to International Association for Time Use Research, Annual Conference, Lisbon, 2002). The American figure is from Sanchez-Tabernero, Media Concentration in Europe. The Australian figure is from Australian Commercial Television 1986-1995 (Bureau of Transport and Communication Economics, AGPS, Canberra, 1996)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, britain, great britain, united kingdom of great britain and northern irela, united king., The United Kingdom

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