That was mainly because of its cultural diversity. Many people who lived in the netherlands historically were important scientists, philosophers, immigrants, thinkers merchants, ect. At least until the 19th century. And the netherlands also published boons that were censored in another countries and the writers of those books were defacto dutch for their job.
00:01 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Mexico, Peru, 08:00 USSR in 1912, 08:17 Georgia in 1927, 08:21 Armenia in 1930, 08:39 Estonia in 1946, 08:40 Latvia in 1947, 08:49 Lithuania in 1954, 09:30 Slovenia in 1990 the author is drunk, at this time there were no these countries. rather, there is a generator of random countries and numbers
Books per million inhabitants? That's utterly nonsense! The quantity of books is unrelated to the number of citizens in a country! Apart from that, Germany, for example, was founded in 1871! How can there be books from "Germany" that were published in the 16th century? At that time there was the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Its territory included half of Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and a large part of France. That means that practically all books of that time came from "Germany"! I am pretty sure that you are technically able to create nice animated graphics, but in terms of content your statistics are a disaster! Accuracy is not optional! Otherwise your video is just a pointless gimmick!
@@ivarkich1543 If you are so clever, then probably you would also easily find a map of the world from 70s with such countries as Latvia and Estonia on it.
@@alexl7559 The USSR was not a unitary country. Latvian and Estonia were still Soviet republics with separated statistics, and, even during the Soviet occupation period, they printed books in Latvian and Estonian. I was born in Latvia 1974.
@@ivarkich1543 If it was Soviet Republic, then it was Soviet publishing industry and Soviets published the books (the books were then distributed throughot USSR. It's the same as those Latvian minivans that were produced in Latvia but it were Soviet minivans and the only(?) minivans in the entire USSR, the whole USSR was wortking (spareparts) towards production of those minivans and no such "country" as Latvia in 1973 was producing minivans, it was just final assembley point of USSR product.
Says something about high wealth with low disparity, that a country can support alot of authors. How many people wouldn't be forced instead into other labor before they even started. It's probably why the US doesn't even make the list despite GDP, and a huge population of people whose language is read all over the world.
Does it really make sense to compare per number of inhabitants? I mean, all book shops have pretty much the same shelve space limits, so countries will likely allow a similar number of publications yearly. If there are more people, it will just make it more difficult to get published in a certain language. Not to mention : What kind of books are we talking about here?
It's not how many books or bookshops, because each bookstore can have a hige difference in how many authors they stock. Authors Per capita is the only fair comparison. Says more about wealth with low disparity that a country can support alot of authors. How many people wouldn't be forced insteae into other labor before they even started. It's why the US doesn't even make the list despite a huge population of people whose language is read all over thd world.
Strange rating. Denmark was the leader for many years, then Iceland. I (like 99% of the world's population) can't remember a single writer from Denmark or Iceland. Conclusion-the number does not mean anything.
All the nations(Mostly northwest Europe) that have published most number of books have Socialist Secular Democracy!!!and top human development index rankings!!
Says most authors...didn't say anything about whether their books were any good or what the subjects were. Americans & more powerful nations are a tougher literary crowd and were focusing more on technology than those small Germanic countries towards the last few decades. Their kids don't sit on the internet and video games that much, they read and go to the park. Different flavour, not better.
В СССР книги издавались многомиллионными тиражами. У каждого русского большие личные библиотеки плюс огромные общественные библиотеки. Фейковая статистика
The statistics are given PER MILLION inhabitants, not for a whole country. Therefore, such small countries as Georgia, Armenia (Soviet republics!, btw), Latvia, Estonia, Iceland are in first places.
@@ivarkich1543 how does it correlate with ”most authors” then? Or even with most people reading. In USSR and Russia libraries were _widely_ used. Even most school books come for free from school libraries.
@@5staryzzz I have met few people from South Asia and interacted with few from USA, every time I talked about Tallinn, Estonia, most of them were like, where is it. Never heard of it. Sorry if my assumption on very little sample size hurts you...
Harlem Renaissance writers were brilliant and contributed a lot--they are a part of the States. The other 'black countries', well for centuries their countries were being raped and looted for the people then after slave labour ended those same colonials returned for the natural resources. From that point on they were a bit busy fighting the imperials for their countries to be returned. That about sums that up!
