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Countries with UDC users
Information presented here is based on 2004 research and subsequent verification.
A - UDC is used in the majority of libraries within the country and is the dominant classification system
B - UDC is used in some type of libraries and in these countries it is used alongside other dominant classification system(s) such as DDC or some national classification system. UDC in these countries is a well known classification system and is also most likely to be taught in LIS schools (at least some).
C - although there are libraries and information centres using UDC in these countries, the system is used rarely.
| EUROPE (41) | A | Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Repubic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain |
| B | Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine |
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| C | Austria, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, The Netherlands, United Kingdom | |
| ASIA (24) | A | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Macao |
| B | India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kazakhastan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam |
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| C | Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey,
Turkmenistan |
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| AFRICA (24) | A | Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Congo DR, Mali, Mozambique, Sengal, Togo |
| B | Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guniea Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda |
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| C | Cameron, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania | |
NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA (9) |
A | [no countries with this type of usage] |
| B | Canada, Cuba, Costa Rica |
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| C | Barabados, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, USA | |
| SOUTH AMERICA (11) |
A | [no countries with this type of usage] |
| B | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Suriname |
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| C | Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela | |
| AUSTRALIA & SOUTH PACIFIC (4) | A | [no countries with this type of usage] |
| B | Australia, French. Polynesia, New Zealand |
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| C | Fiji | |
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| UDC users survey in Delhi 2007 - report published in Extensions & Corrections to The UDC, 30 (2008). |
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Countries by language of use
| ENGLISH | B: Australia, Finland, Norway, Ghana, South Africa, India, UK B/C: Ireland, Canada, Uganda, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand C: Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Trinidad & Tobago, USA, Sudan, Malaysia, Syria, Barbados, Jamaica
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| FRENCH | A: Congo DR, Togo A/B: Belgium, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal B: France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
C: Cameroon |
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| GERMAN | A/B: Switzerland B/C: Germany C: Austria |
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| PORTUGUESE | A: Portugal, Angola |
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| RUSSIAN | A/B: Armenia, Azerbaijan B: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan |
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| SPANISH | A: Andorra, Spain B: Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay B/C: Costa Rica, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela |
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| OTHER LANG. | A : Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech R., Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine A/B: Bulgaria B: Denmark, Sweden, Japan B/C: Vietnam, The Netherlands, Surinam C: China, Faeroe Islands, Italy, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, |
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