Overall, as the graph below shows, since 2000, average daily newspaper sales steadily declined (except in 2006, when it rose by 0.9%). In 2009 alone, sales fell by 5.9%, with a daily loss of 558 thousand copies since 2007. In its report, the FIEG also stresses the irregular newspaper sales in different parts of Italy. The majority of daily newspapers (54.5%) are purchased, therefore read, in Northern Italy (averagely, 102 copies every 1000 inhabitants); while in Central and Southern Italy the percentage is equal (22.8%) but, on average, 99 copies are sold to every 1000 inhabitants in the Center while only 56 copies are sold to every 1000 inhabitants in the South.[14]