First: I wanna clarify this. I know that loads of people read like 100 books a year, or read all the time. I know these people exist. I’m asking about people that are like… average. An average american who just… reads. Doesn’t track everything or sets goals of like 100, or never stops reading… Anyway, I’ve been searching this up, and i find answers like 15-50, even 100. I find this highly unlikely, especially for average US citizens. Half the people i know don’t even pick up 5 books a year, let alone 15! I just don’t believe these stats. I read somewhere that people read 8 a month on average? That can’t be right for an average person. That’s like 2 books a week… I know people do read this much, but still… For an average person? So be real… how many books do people actually read a year?
I read in a different sub that 2,000 people would be a representative sample size for the U.S. population (and YouTube’d the methodology). I bet if you could select 2,000 random adult American Citizens, from 18-80 (~natural lifespan), across socioeconomic and demographic groups, the mean “n books read for pleasure, start to finish in a rolling 12-month period” would round down to zero (so, 0.4444 or something similar). That would still imply ~889 books read in totality across that population.