How many pure math papers are published a year? I vaguely remember seeing a figure of 10,000 but that might be old, and I may be wrong.



How many papers are posted a year?
At [SCImago](http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php) you can find pretty much the entire [statistics](http://www.scimagojr.com/countrysearch.php?area=2600&country=&w=world):


The first graph gives the total number of math papers per year.
The second graph breaks it down per subject area (so you can distinguish "pure" from less pure). I would say that about 20% is "pure math", so some 30.000 papers per year. The number 10.000 you mention was the annual count twenty years ago.


![](https://ilorentz.org/beenakker/MO/number_of_papers_2.png)
![](https://ilorentz.org/beenakker/MO/number_of_papers.png)


