By Movieguide® Staff
Bible sales in the US and UK are at an all time high!
“The significant and sustained upward trend in Bible sales suggests that more and more people are investigating the Christian faith themselves and seeking to draw their own conclusions about its truth,” the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’s CEO Sam Richardson told Premier Christian News.
The SPCK conducted a study that found the number of physical Bibles sold in the UK increased by 106% between 2019 and 2025.
Sales rose from £2.69 million ($3.6 million) in 2019 to £6.3 million ($8.4 million) in 2025 — an overall increase of £3.61 million ($4.8 million). Compare that to the Bible sales growth figure from the entire period of 2008 to 2019 — £277,188 ($372,774).
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Meanwhile, in the US, Bible sales are also on the rise. Circana BookScan found a 12% increase in Bible sales from 2024 to 2025, to 19 million — a 21-year high in America.
“The greater interest in religious content in the U.S. reflects a bigger search for hope and community,” Brenna Connor, Circana’s director and industry analyst, told Publisher’s Weekly. “[It] suggests that consumers are increasingly turning to faith-based resources as anchors of stability and sources of comfort during uncertain times.”
This upward trajectory doesn’t look like it’s ending any time soon. HarperCollins Christian Publishing CEO Mark Schoenwald told Publishers Weekly that the 2025-2026 fiscal year already looks like it’s going to be big for “all formats, from kids’ Bibles to pew Bibles to complex study Bibles.”
“We just surpassed 10 million units of the NIV Study Bible,” he continued. “What that tells me is people are not just buying Bibles, but they’re actually trying to read them and understand them and then apply them to their lives.”
Speaking about the Bible boom in the UK, the Bible Society’s Mark Woods told The Times that sales are coming from all over, from “young people buying the Bible themselves, or parents buying for their children” to “churches buying it for their youth group or their local school.”
“Either way, there’s a very clear increase in demand,” he added. “This seems to arise from a perception that the Bible has something important to say to young people, and from a desire to make it accessible to them.”
Ultimately, people desire the hope that only faith in Jesus can give.
With sales numbers like these, it looks like more people than ever are turning to scripture.
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