Year	Word count	Characters per word	Growth of word count in percent	Growth of characters per word in permille
1991	18447706	6.09994	-	-
1992	17048645	6.11779	-7.58	2.93
1993	15053688	6.14434	-11.70	4.34
1994	15357213	6.25813	2.02	18.52
1995	15747251	6.26076	2.54	0.42
1996	16162383	6.26367	2.64	0.46
1997	16424834	6.26386	1.62	0.03
1998	16676295	6.26464	1.53	0.13
1999	16836511	6.26696	0.96	0.37
2000	17308741	6.27057	2.80	0.58
2001	17516122	6.27199	1.20	0.23
2002	17938097	6.27577	2.41	0.60
2003	18277526	6.27929	1.89	0.56
2004	18579468	6.28236	1.65	0.49
2005	18957299	6.28611	2.03	0.60
2006	19179051	6.29206	1.17	0.95
2007	19519644	6.29769	1.78	0.89
2008	20188975	6.30363	3.43	0.94
2009	20477455	6.30586	1.43	0.35
2010	21190616	6.31277	3.48	1.10
2011	21231510	6.31286	0.19	0.01
2012	21445800	6.31487	1.01	0.32
2013	21510087	6.31552	0.30	0.10
2014	21811339	6.31909	1.40	0.56
2015	21671536	6.32280	-0.64	0.59
2016	21974198	6.32916	1.40	1.01
2017	22072574	6.33054	0.45	0.22
2018	22498981	6.33507	1.93	0.72
2019	22714272	6.33695	0.96	0.30
2020	23393543	6.34386	2.99	1.09
2021	23603906	6.34600	0.90	0.34
2022	24226168	6.35316	2.64	1.13
2023	24338455	6.35388	0.46	0.11
2024	24409969	6.35444	0.29	0.09