Reading for pleasure in the US has declined by more than 40 per cent over the past 20 years according to analysis of the daily lives of Americans, supporting several smaller studies that suggest fewer people are using their leisure time to read.
Analysing data from the US government’s American Time Use Survey, researchers at the University of Florida and University College London found that of the 236,000 Americans surveyed the proportion who read for pleasure on an average day fell from 28 per cent in 2003 to 16 per cent in 2023.
“This is not just a small dip — it’s a sustained decline of about 3 per cent per year,” said Jill Sonke at the University of Florida. “It’s significant and deeply concerning.” The results are published in iScience.
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