The NRS figures put the Independent's average daily readership at 693,000 for the six-month period from October 2007 to March 2008. It stood at 802,000 during the same period a year before.
Also falling is the Daily Star, which plummeted 22% year on year to 1.37m average daily readers. Richard Desmond's other daily, the Daily Express, was down 7% to 1.64m.
In contrast the biggest-selling dailies held steady. The Sun, which has the highest readership out of all the national newspapers, was down only 1% to 7.93m readers.
The Daily Mail, which has the second-highest readership figure, rose 2% year on year to 5.31m readers.
The Daily Mirror fell 6% to 3.68m readers, which puts it in third place.
The Daily Telegraph took a small hit in readership, dropping 3% year on year to 2.07m.
The Guardian had a similar slide and was down 4% year on year to an average daily readership of 1.21m.
The Times remained steady year on year with 1.73m daily readers.
Metro, the morning freesheet, recorded a 22% rise year on year from October to March, with an average of 2.97m readers per day. It expanded its distribution by 250,000 copies, or around 20%, in October.
The afternoon freesheets, London Lite and thelondonpaper drew equal with each other. London Lite had an average daily readership of 931,000 compared to thelondonpaper, which had 932,000 daily readers.
However despite the titles' equal readership figure, Thelondonpaper distributes around 500,000 copies per day, while London Lite circulates around 400,000.
The Evening Standard dropped 16% year on year to 554,000 daily readers, which places it around 380,000 readers below the two afternoon freesheets.
News of the World remains the highest read Sunday newspaper despite dropping 10% year on year to 7.74m.
The Mail on Sunday was its closest rival with 5.81m daily readers. This was unchanged from the same period a year ago.
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