Ever since its establishment in 1969, the Cairo International Book Fair has played a key role in boosting the Arab cultural movement.

The fair accomplishments over the past 40 years stand evident to the high echo it has triggered in the realm of culture at both regional and international levels. The increasing number of participants, as a matter of fact, is the most striking evidence to wide-scope cultural interaction climate the fair has managed to create over its long history.

Hereinafter is the Statistics of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) along its history as of 1969 till 2006

Year	Number of Participating countries	Number of publishers	Number of books	Number of Pavilions
1969	47	462	100.000	2
1970	40	700	500.000	3
1971	34	750	380.000	4
1972	45	431	300.000	5
1973	35	300	220.000	4
1974	30	141	250.000	6
1975	30	140	250.000	6
1976	27	139	250.000	6
1977	27	148	400.000	8
1978	30	50	450.000	8
1979	32	150	450.000	9
1980	32	400	500.000	9
1981	18	100	700.000	9
1982	32	133	930.000	9
1983	46	583	1.450.000	9
1984	42	1177	2.500.000	9
1985	51	1200	3.000.000	9
1986	49	1200	3.550.000	9
1987	57	1700	3.700.000	10
1988	52	1700	1.250.000	17
1989	52	1700	1.300.000	17
1990	54	1750	3.800.000	17
1991	62	1750	4.200.000	17
1992	65	1850	4.300.000	17
1993	68	1850	4.500.000	22
1994	72	2175	5.200.000	25
1995	76	2300	1.600.000	25
1996	76	2400	2.250.000	27
1997	79	2400	3.400.000	27
1998	79	2450	3.600.000	27
1999	83	2693	3.700.000	28
2000	85	2715	3.920.000	30
2001	85	2765	3.950.000	35
2002	93	2825	3.950.000	35
2003	97	3125	5.000.000	37
2004	97	3150	5.000.000	38
2005	25	516	3.000.000	17
2006	32	623	3.000.000	18