The U.S. ranks 40th in newspapers; the U.S. ranks 14th in newspapers

Given this recent article in the New York Times, I thought I’d post this:

According to UNESCO, in 2004 there were five daily newspaper titles in the United States for every one million inhabitants, which made the United States rank fortieth in that category. Niue ranked first, with 628 newspaper titles for every one million inhabitants.

When just the top fifty countries in terms of daily newspaper titles are looked at, the United States ranks fourteenth in terms of the number of daily newspaper titles published per 1,000,000 inhabitants. Norway ranks first.