diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index b008e3e5f76a24dfb2704721b88474c315e80700..ee55c5bedaa91c44972a9b5faa3fa3eae8f05ecd 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ POSTGRES_USER = 'covid19data'
 POSTGRES_PW = 'covid19datapwd'
 POSTGRES_URL = 'localhost'
 POSTGRES_DB = 'covid19data'
-ITEMS_PER_PAGE = 20
+ITEMS_PER_PAGE = 10
 CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
 SECRET_KEY='vfdjv423ndf654&%%'
diff --git a/database.py b/database.py
index b2738e34c2981016516f73cde93d7c2bc7b8366f..8cf1d6ee258463b4c5a14b63242393fb7d749f49 100644
--- a/database.py
+++ b/database.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
 app = Flask(__name__)
 CORS(app)
 app.config.from_object("config")
-ITEMS_PER_PAGE = 10
+ITEMS_PER_PAGE = app.config['ITEMS_PER_PAGE']
 DB_URL = 'postgresql+psycopg2://{user}:{pw}@{url}/{db}'.format(
     user=app.config['POSTGRES_USER'],
     pw=app.config['POSTGRES_PW'],