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The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.<ref name="2003_memory" /><ref name="1997_report" /> The various properties in the register include recordings of [[folk music]]; [[ancient language]]s and [[phonetics]]; aged remnants of religious and secular manuscripts; collective lifetime works of renowned giants of literature; science and music; copies of landmark motion pictures and short films; and accounts documenting changes in the world's political, economic, and social stage.

As of DecemberApril 20182025, 432570 pieces of documentary heritage had been inscribed in the register, with 274 of these from Europe and North America and 116 from Asia and the Pacific.<ref>{{citeCite web |title=Statistics OF Memory of the World |url=https://enwww.unesco.org/sitesen/default/files/statistics_of_mow.pdf|publisher=UNESCOmemory-world |access-date=142025-04-24 November|website=UNESCO Memory of the World 2020Programme}}</ref>

The program is not without controversy. During the 2015 cycle, for example, there was a significant degree of conflict within East Asia, as registry with the MoW Program was becoming viewed as an approval of particular views of contested history, specifically with respect to the [[Nanjing Massacre]] and the [[comfort women]].<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last=Yamamoto |first=Mayumi |date=2016 |title=Heritage and Diplomacy: A Cultural Approach to UNESCO's Document Registry Program in East Asia |url=https://www.academia.edu/32367448 |journal=Annual Journal of Cultural Anthropology |volume=11 |access-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref>