Slovenian households spent 0.4% of their outgoings (almost EUR 62) on books in 2004, 0.1 percentage point more than in 1995, the National Statistics Office has said ahead of the Word Book Day, celebrated on Monday.
Slovenia thus belongs among the EU countries with the lowest percentage of spending on books.
According to the latest European data, households in the EU spent 0.5% of the outgoings on books in 1999. Greece topped the list with 0.7%, while French, Luxembourg, British, Portuguese and Finnish households spent 0.4% of their family budget on books.
The National Statistics Office also said that Slovenians borrowed 20.4 million books and other items from libraries in 2004, a considerable increase compared to 1995, when the number stood at 12.8 million.
The number of books in libraries was also on the rise. In 1995 libraries around Slovenia acquired 308,000 units, while in 2004 their stock increased by 419,000 units.
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