Popularity ranking · India

The 100 most popular Newspapers in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest newspapers in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 693 newspapers tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Algemeen Dagblad, The Times of India and Dainik Jagran lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 29M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1.7M, and the largest, Algemeen Dagblad, reaches around 9.7M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each newspaper, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Daily News and Analysis 1.9M 33.2 30.1% Newspaper
27 Dinamani 1.8M 41.5 21.0% Newspaper
28 Sakal 1.8M 34.7 19.9% Newspaper
29 Madhyamam Daily 1.7M 41.2 21.6% Newspaper
30 Now (newspaper) 1.4M 24.5 4.2% Newspaper
31 The Wall Street Journal 1.3M 36.7 17.7% Newspaper
32 Göteborgs-Posten 1.2M 44.7 52.3% Newspaper
33 Dagens Industri 1.2M 45.1 42.1% Newspaper
34 Andhra Jyothy 1.2M 33.1 14.8% Newspaper
35 Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace 1.1M 41.8 55.0% Newspaper
36 TheMarker Online 1.1M 31.2 45.0% Newspaper
37 Deccan Herald 1.1M 39.0 22.3% Newspaper
38 Pudhari 1.1M 36.7 18.1% Newspaper
39 Business Standard 972k 33.7 15.7% Newspaper
40 Financial Times 916k 36.5 18.5% Newspaper
41 Daily Mail 796k 33.5 21.6% Newspaper
42 Kuwait Times 707k 30.6 0.0% Newspaper
43 The Guardian 699k 32.2 21.2% Newspaper
44 Al-Quds (newspaper) 692k 34.5 66.9% Newspaper
45 USA Today 624k 28.2 23.6% Newspaper
46 China Times 595k 49.3 30.3% Newspaper
47 The Washington Post 575k 36.6 18.5% Newspaper
48 Dawn News 558k 33.1 11.7% Newspaper
49 Udayavani 540k 34.8 17.5% Newspaper
50 The New Indian Express 540k 34.9 24.6% Newspaper

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular newspapers compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each newspaper by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest newspaper in India?

Algemeen Dagblad currently leads with an estimated audience of 9.7M people in India.

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