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504 V. INDUSTRIES OF SWEDEN. A GENERAL SURVEY.
Assessed value of landed property.1
these years. Yet, in spite of that decrease, the demand for working
people was almost everywhere greater than the supply — a proof of
the intensity of the development that had fallen to the country’s lot
during this period. — Another and no less forcible testimony to that
fact is afforded by the assessment figures for income-tax and
property-tax and by the estimates of national wealth, to which we now proceed.
Statistics of Taxation in their present condition, date back to
1862. As has been shown in a preceding article in the earlier part of
the present work (Chapter on State Finances), triennial, since 1898
quinquennial, official assessments, through the agency of representatives
chosen by each community, have been regularly made since that date
concerning the value of all real property — a difference being always
observed between landed property and real property of other
descriptions (»other real property»). No calculation, on the other hand, is
Table 58. Total income from real property, capital, and labour*
Average for the years Mean population. A. Five X of the value of real property. Kronor. B. Income from capital and work. Kronor. Total. Kronor. Per inhabitant. Kronor.
A. B. Total.
1866/70........ 4,166,000 115,977,000 160,427,000 27ft,404,000 28 38 M [
1871/75........ 4,’274,000 121,320,000 225,098,000 346,418,000 28 53 81
1876 80........ 4,500.000 150,565,000 286,286,000 430,851,000 33 64 »7
1881/85........ 4,605,000 177,271,000 326,976,000 504,247,000 38 71 IN
1886/90........ 4,742,000 192,502,000 368,269,000 500,771,000 40 78 118
1891/95........ 4,83’2,000 209,917,000 437,472,000 047,389,000 43 91 IN
1896/00........ 5,032,000 236,689,000 602,125,000 838,814,000 47 120 117
In 1900....... 5,117,000 251,518,000 715,938,000 967,450,000 49 140 IS»
» 1902 ....... 5,187,000 262,751,000 764,555,000 1,027,300,000 51 147 IN
1 In 1902 this value amounted to 2,498 million kronor; see Table 57. (A kron» =
110 shilling = 0’2G8 dollar). — * The income from the real property here »apposed to be
5 % of the total assessed value.
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