U.S. total daily and Sunday newspaper circulation

The United States, the hardest hit newspaper market in the world, has suffered overall circulation declines from 58.5 million Sunday-only and 55.2 million daily subscribers in 2003, down to 48.8 million Sunday and 44.3 million daily in 2012, according to Pew’s “State of the News Media” study in 2013. The figures came from Nielsen, Pew, Newspaper Association of America and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

The data set is a part of a collection of 500 revenue and usership trends in mobile, social, Internet, tablet, video and other digital categories, published in the 200-page Global Digital Media Trendbook 2013. GDMT, in its eight year, is to be published by World Newsmedia Network, a not-for-profit media research company, in September 2013. To subscribe to the PDF report and/or the tablet edition, go to www.wnmn.org, or contact mstone@wnmn.org.