Statistics on Book Publishing Production Chronological series Number of copies (Books and leaflets) (thousands) by subject categories (UNESCO classification) and period. Units: Number of copies (thousands) 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 TOTAL 99,828 132,126 183,866 255,513 226,871 255,721 281,005 213,558 238,747 228,590 218,579 233,157 239,537 236,810 186,508 192,019 194,644 180,181 183,227 1 Generalities (0) 1,633 2,038 3,764 5,049 5,696 5,568 4,523 3,624 4,236 3,700 4,272 4,681 6,737 5,786 5,385 5,213 6,401 6,274 5,301 2 Philosophy, psychology (1) 4,674 5,893 6,858 12,093 10,740 9,521 9,026 9,089 6,881 9,938 5,396 6,014 7,324 6,775 4,748 5,345 5,160 4,566 5,078 3 Religion, theology (2) 4,257 4,888 6,561 9,068 7,665 12,882 8,761 8,173 12,102 10,525 11,458 10,685 11,022 10,877 10,069 10,179 10,377 9,232 11,759 4 Sociology, statistics (30-31) 1,126 1,922 2,201 2,957 2,331 1,668 1,832 1,830 1,665 1,638 1,115 1,923 1,880 1,543 1,325 2,322 1,595 1,747 1,687 5 Political sciences, Economics sciences (32-33) 3,404 4,791 5,407 5,611 5,710 4,772 4,970 4,928 5,258 4,529 5,831 3,449 4,004 3,783 6,140 3,772 3,713 3,029 4,941 6 Law, admin.,Social Welfare and social actiony, Insurance (34.351-354.36) 3,012 4,484 6,108 7,128 7,091 5,666 14,684 6,066 6,378 5,467 6,218 6,177 8,703 7,493 7,050 7,100 7,238 5,385 5,909 7 Art and military science (355-359) 227 247 171 364 229 185 180 220 129 169 311 284 275 127 115 160 424 494 198 8 Education, teaching, training, distractions (37) 1,875 2,451 2,823 3,312 4,778 7,634 5,036 7,501 9,900 8,448 4,737 10,750 7,265 6,354 4,776 6,773 9,758 9,516 10,692 9. Commerce, communications, transport, tourism .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 70 200 433 649 826 661 1,064 979 881 856 10 Ethnography, cultural anthropology (customs, folklore..)(39) 1,196 1,789 2,016 5,226 2,668 2,188 1,927 2,717 3,219 3,949 3,415 3,488 2,308 1,611 1,798 2,122 2,707 2,264 2,327 11 Mathematics (51) 1,069 1,216 1,566 3,296 2,844 2,540 2,388 3,002 2,985 4,128 3,666 4,612 4,151 5,346 4,408 5,341 4,079 3,688 4,258 12 Natural sciences (52_59) 3,526 3,541 6,341 9,912 9,180 10,978 5,541 6,193 6,934 5,906 5,867 7,564 7,932 8,066 6,572 8,509 8,214 7,253 4,778 13 Medical sciences, health (61) 5,575 7,480 8,928 10,861 9,178 10,715 13,521 10,712 12,411 9,338 8,323 9,531 9,356 9,273 8,353 8,780 7,703 6,240 6,019 14 Engineering, technology, industries, trades (62.66-69) 1,316 1,320 1,852 2,662 5,001 4,028 5,847 7,413 8,314 7,615 8,559 9,261 8,349 9,438 7,307 6,220 5,081 3,266 2,939 15 Agriculture, forestry, cattle breeding, hunting, fishing (63) 782 897 1,263 1,279 1,208 2,220 1,231 1,004 1,297 2,019 2,098 1,951 2,730 2,330 1,586 1,568 2,102 2,174 1,859 16 Domestic science (64) 3,268 4,511 5,046 6,883 4,180 10,454 9,088 3,915 6,405 4,045 5,517 6,446 4,734 4,482 1,835 4,224 3,144 3,865 3,897 17 Management, administration and organisation (65) 2,241 2,494 2,726 3,348 2,636 2,818 3,066 2,641 2,828 3,387 3,320 2,892 2,469 3,277 3,852 3,730 3,419 4,796 5,793 18 Conditioning of land, town planning, architecture (70-792) 948 1,075 1,246 2,148 1,981 1,967 1,426 2,015 2,008 2,237 2,090 1,306 1,690 1,378 1,080 1,155 1,295 917 994 19 Plastic and graphic arts, photography (73-77) 3,677 5,639 5,235 8,174 9,756 9,829 8,823 6,987 6,844 6,208 6,086 8,911 6,773 6,845 6,097 6,376 5,973 5,247 5,731 20 Music, performing arts, theatre, movies and cinema (78.791-792) 1,788 1,726 2,570 5,982 5,959 7,401 21,220 3,294 3,803 3,731 2,775 3,675 3,727 4,249 3,728 3,810 2,648 2,392 2,076 21 Games and sports (793-799) 1,868 2,566 2,642 3,649 3,540 3,086 2,885 2,469 2,460 2,965 1,977 2,141 2,378 2,363 3,905 2,251 2,279 1,653 1,397 22 Philology, languages, linguistics (81) 4,351 4,261 6,473 10,104 11,511 10,681 8,735 8,229 9,844 10,958 10,276 12,876 12,136 15,450 13,029 13,150 10,478 8,832 10,620 23 Literatura, history and literary criticism (82) 37,918 55,969 89,589 109,822 97,638 107,330 124,945 95,933 107,998 106,349 103,454 99,621 103,288 101,294 65,782 66,239 74,637 69,626 69,374 24 Geography (91) 5,901 5,976 5,655 11,959 6,962 9,819 10,364 5,560 7,886 5,462 6,748 7,666 10,290 7,760 7,736 6,813 6,714 8,001 7,068 25 History, biography (92-99) 4,196 4,952 6,825 14,626 8,388 11,769 10,986 10,041 6,960 5,810 4,871 6,823 9,369 10,084 9,173 9,803 8,527 8,844 7,677 Notes: 1) TITLES: In order to interpret correctly the published series of titles, see the statistics methodology 2) COPIES: Data not available for year 2012 3) The category '9. Commerce, communications, Transport, tourism is not used since The year 2003 Source: National Statistics Institute