Over 90 percent of Russians say they like to read books, according to a new survey in the country that has some of the world’s highest literacy rates.
“Only 4 percent of those polled (опрошенных) said they barely read books,” the state-funded VTsIOM pollster said on Monday in a poll conducted (проведенный) on International Literacy Day.
The rate of non-readers went up to 22 percent among respondents without a high school diploma.
Children’s (31 percent) and history (30 percent) books enjoy the highest popularity among (среди) Russian readers. They are followed by household management and gardening books (27 percent) and classical Russian or foreign literature (26 percent).
Those with a higher education prefer classical Russian or foreign literature (36 percent), history books (33 percent) and children’s books (32 percent), followed by academic and professional literature (30 percent.)
