Free news access worldwide 2020

According to the results of a global survey on news consumption, news audiences in Hungary and Russia were the least likely to pay for news, with 79 percent of respondents in each country admitting that they only accessed news content which was freely available. Australian and British consumers were also more inclined to read free news content than pay for it, whereas less than 60 percent of those in Germany, India, South Africa, China, and Malaysia said that they exclusively read news they did not have to pay for.

News audiences who only read news which can be accessed for free in selected countries worldwide as of June 2020

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Release date

October 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

May 22 to June 5, 2020

Number of respondents

18,998*

Age group

16-74 years

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

*Respondents in the United States, Canada, Malaysia, South Africa, and Turkey were aged 18 to 74 years old, and 16 to 74 years old in all other participating countries.
Among respondents who answered 'agree' to the statement 'I only read news I can access for free'.

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