As of June 2024, the News UK paper with the highest average print readership was The Sun (Mon-Sat), with over 1.9 million people having read or looked at an average issue of the publication. The Times had an average readership of under one million in the same time period.
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Print average issue readership of News UK newspapers in the United Kingdom as of June 2024
(in 1,000s)
Characteristic
Average issue readership in thousands
The Sun (Mon-Sat)
1,891
The Sun on Sunday
1,834
The Times (Mon-Sat)
809
The Sunday Times
1,366
Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Average issue readership in thousands1,8911,8911,8341,8348098091,3661,366The Sun (Mon-Sat)The Sun on SundayThe Times (Mon-Sat)The Sunday Times
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News Corp. (August 8, 2024). Print average issue readership of News UK newspapers in the United Kingdom as of June 2024 (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 15, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1450151/news-uk-print-readers/
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News Corp. (2024). Print average issue readership of News UK newspapers in the United Kingdom as of June 2024 (in 1,000s). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 15, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1450151/news-uk-print-readers/
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