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X. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF 8WEDBN.

The consumption of coal for Europe as a whole is at present about 1,200
kilogr. per inhabitant annually. The lowness of the figure given above for Sweden
s accounted for by the fact that other fuel is used to so large an extent in
comparison with other countries. For the Swedish iron production charcoal is
almost exclusively used as fuel, while wood is used for many purposes where other
countries have coal. Furthermore, the large number of cases where water-power
is made use of in industry are in a measure another explanation of the relative!;
small consumption of coal in Sweden.

A complete survey of the present state of the manufacture of Sweden
may be obtained by consulting the factory statistics as it has been
carried out in later years. Including also dairy-farming, and forest
and mining industries, which have been dealt with separately above,
the total number of industrial concerns and of hands employed at them,
together with the value of the manufactured articles — handicrafts and
domestic trades excluded — amounted to the following in 1900:1

n.„ , - , , No. of No. of Value of

Branch of Industry. Factories.’ Workmen. output. Kronor.

Articles for Nutriment and Indulgence... 5,043 35,570 387,249,000

Textile and Clothing industry..............................802 37,187 134,734,000

Hides, Skins, and Hair................................................623 6,873 26,166,000

Oils, Tar, India rubber, etc......................................187 2,434 21,105,000

Timber and Timber-ware industry..................1,713 68,452 231,747,000

Paper industry......................................................................169 8,490 30,340.000

Manuf. from various Vegetable Substances 37 676 1,898.(00

Manuf. of Stone, Clay, Charcoal, and Peat 1,555 44,974 69,417,000

Chemical industry..............................................................256 2,644 15,285,000

Mining............................................................................................438 13,861 20,273,000

Ironworks» and Blast-Furnaces..........................246 16,876 183,053,000

Metal- and Machine industry ..............................1,441 66,222 167,353,000

Other branches.............................................421_77757_17,900.000

Total 12,»21 322,016 l,3M,SM,«M

In respect to the value of output, it should be noticed that products
subjected to several processes of refinement are put down at their full value in
each case. This naturally renders the total amount considerably too high; it
is, however, at present, impossible to rectify this.

A corresponding calculation for 1897 (not quite so complete) gives
a total value of output of 983 million kronor, i. e., 196 kronor, on an
average, for every inhabitant in the country. It may be seen from
Table 114 and the map on page 771 how this relation between value of
output of manufactures and population varies in different parts of the
kingdom. The foremost place is occupied by Malmöhus Län, with 356
kronor per inhab., while Jemtland comes last with only 41 kronor. —
Table 114 shows, too, which branches of manufacturing industry have
attained the widest scope in Sweden.

1 The figures given in this Table are considerably more comprehensive than those on
page 767 and cannot, therefore, be compared with them. — * Factories that turn oat articles
in more than one of the branches here enumerated are inclnded in both or all places;
hence, the total nnmber of factories is somewhat too high. — * Including also other metala

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