How words are counted
in different countries
Text count standards may differ across countries. Please take a look at the useful information we’ve put together for you about text count standards in 15 different countries.
United Kingdom
Per 1000 words of source text.
Germany
Per 1000 words of source text.
Belgium
Per line of 60 keystrokes.
Italy
Per 25 lines of 60 characters (1,500 characters per standard page).
USA
Per word of source text.
France
Per word of target text. But: In Information Technology (localization) — per word of source text.
Japan
Per byte of source text.
Czech Republic
Per standard page (1800 strokes).
Bulgaria
For 1800 characters per page — 60 characters per row X 30 rows per page.
Portugal
1800 characters per page, 30 lines per page, 60 characters per line = ±8-10 words.
Mexico
Per page.
Chile
For 250 words (page).
Poland
Per translated word.
Croatia
For 1800 keystrokes, including spaces, commas, etc. of the target text. 1600 kяeystrokes for a difficult technical text or 1125 for a sworn translation.
Latvia
Per page.
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