What Were Global Voices’ Readers up to Last Week?

“Read up!” Photo by Flickr user carnagenyc. CC BY-NC 2.0

At Global Voices, our community researches, writes, edits, and translates stories with a mission to support human rights and build bridges of understanding across countries, cultures, and languages.

We don't publish just to grab clicks or follow a news trend. We do, however, like to keep track of the ways in which our hard work has impact around the world.

To that end, one useful metric is how readers respond to our stories and translations. So let's take a look at who our readers were and what caught their attention during the week of February 5-11, 2018.

Where in the world are Global Voices’ readers?

Last week, our stories and translations attracted readers from 195 countries! The top 20 countries represented across all of Global Voices’ sites were:

The top 20 countries for readership during the week of February 5-11, 2018. A modified version of a map by Roke. CC BY-SA 3.0

  1. United States
  2. Canada
  3. Japan
  4. Mexico
  5. Brazil
  6. France
  7. United Kingdom
  8. Spain
  9. Colombia
  10. Philippines
  11. India
  12. Italy
  13. Germany
  14. Russia
  15. Taiwan
  16. Bangladesh
  17. Indonesia
  18. Argentina
  19. Peru
  20. Madagascar

Global Voices in English

The English-language site is where the majority of original content is first published at Global Voices. The top five most-read stories of last week were:

  1. Trinidad & Tobago Finally Gets Its ‘Steups’ Emoji
  2. As the World Celebrates Bob Marley Day, Reggae Is Changing and so Are Its Fans
  3. How Apple Is Paving the Way to a ‘Cloud Dictatorship’ in China
  4. FBI Investigation Helps Uncover Latest Bribery Scandal in Greece
  5. It Is Not Only LGBT Jamaicans Who Welcome the Government’s Ban of Controversial U.S. Preacher

Global Voices Lingua

Lingua is a project that translates Global Voices stories into languages other than English. There are about 30 active Lingua sites. Below is last week's most-read story or translation on each active language site.

Arabic

Aymara

Bangla

Chinese (simplified)

Chinese (traditional)

Czech

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

French

German

Greek

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Kurdish

Macedonian

Malagasy

Nepali

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Spanish

Swahili

Turkish

Urdu

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