Some have estimated that 100 million Bibles are sold worldwide annually. It is further estimated that since publications, there have been over 6 billions Bibles sold.
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More importantly, how many of the purchased Bibles were actually read? My guess is that many more Bibles were sold than were actually read.
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The Christian Bible has an estimated one hundred million sales annually. The majority of these sales are seen in the Western world, where the Bible is mass produced. Currently, there have been over six billion Bibles produced, and it is actively being translated into thirteen hundred new languages. The King James Version is the third most sold translation, with the New International Version in second place and the New Living Translation in first.
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Too many, There was an average of 60 Bibles sold every second in 2009. To address the question, it is not possible to know that, even if a database knew how many bibles have ever been sold, (none do), it would be impossible to know how many were destroyed, given as gifts, etc...