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The Bible…..
Worldwide demand is
awesome
Let the Statistics Speak for
Themselves.
"The
existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest
benefit the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle
it is a crime against humanity."
Immanuel Kant: 18th Century
Prussian Philosopher
The
citizens of world have decided the Bible is the best-selling book of all
time.
Sadly,
the universal demand for the Bible cannot keep pace with production.
It is
without doubt, the best-selling book of all time. The United Bible
Societies (UBS) estimate they have distributed worldwide, over 9 billion
Bibles, whole or in part, since 1947.
The
latest statistics from World Bible Societies speaks volumes for the
hunger there is to own a Bible.
Worldwide Bible
Translation Statistics
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World Population—6.5 billion
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Languages spoken in the world—6,912
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Languages with some or all of the Bible—2,403 (26 first published in
2005)
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Translation programmes in progress in languages without adequate
Scripture—1,640
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Languages needing Bible translation work to begin—2,529
(representing approximately 272 million people)
Total
Scripture Distribution Worldwide in 2006……393,122,834
Broken down in this way
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Bibles |
New Testaments |
Portions |
New Readers Portions |
Selections |
New Readers Selections |
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Africa |
3,658,030 |
360,933 |
931,700 |
597,382 |
5,731,034 |
56,707 |
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Americas |
11,860,284 |
3,002,284 |
5,136,763 |
5,283,635 |
238,933,264 |
17,872,828 |
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Asia-Pacific |
8,074,124 |
7,561,800 |
6,519,257 |
3,484,008 |
60,597,383 |
4,320,491 |
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Europe- Middle East |
2,138,146 |
2,747,547 |
1,555,332 |
453,649 |
1,168,520 |
1,078,960 |
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Total |
25,730,357 |
13,672,564 |
14,143,052 |
9,817,674 |
306,430,201 |
23,328,986 |
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The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by
alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as
through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the
stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their
far-distant, long-forgotten home. --Thomas Carlyle
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