Book reading frequency of teenagers in Germany in 2024

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Kasia Davies,
Dec 5, 2024

This statistic shows data on how often teenagers read books in Germany in 2024. That year, 37 percent of German teenagers stated to read books daily or several times a week. 22 percent of respondents did so every one to two weeks.

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Release date

November 2024

Region

Germany

Survey time period

2022 to 2024

Number of respondents

1,200 respondents

Age group

12-19 years

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

JIM is a series of surveys published by the South-West Media Education Research Association (Medienpädagogische Forschungsbund Südwest), which is supported by the Regional Office for Communication Baden-Württemberg (Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (LFK)) and the Regional Office for Media and Communication Rhineland-Palatinate (Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinlandpfalz (LMK)). The surveys are developed in cooperation with SWR Media Research (SWR Medienforschung), the Association for Newspaper Market Research (Zeitungsmarktforschung Gesellschaft (ZMG)), the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), as well as its regional offices in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, and the Reading Foundation (Stiftung Lesen).

The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey.

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