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-319 vii. manufacturing industries.
the iron industry of the country employs, as is well known, hardly anything
but charcoal as fuel, and in many other instances, especially for household use,
wood is employed, where, in other countries, coal or other fossil fuel would be
used. In addition to this, we have the great number of water-power plants in
Sweden, which, in some degree, render the use of coal unnecessary.
Water-power in 1012 formed 55 % of the total motive-power employed for the whole
of Swedish industries, inclusive of mining.
A complete survey of the present state of all the manufactures of Sweden
for the last few years may be obtained by consulting the factory statistics.
Including the saw-mill- and mining industries, which have been dealt with
separately above, the total number of industrial concerns and of hands
employed in them, together with the value of the manufactured articles
— handicrafts and domestic trades, as well as the building industry and
dairy-farming, excluded — amounted to the figures shown by Table 68.
As regards the value of the output it should be noticed that products
which are subject to several processes during the course of manufacture are
estimated in each case at their full value, this, of course, making the total
for all the groups too high. At the present moment it is impossible to decide
how much ought to be deducted in order to obtain the exact values.
The statistics shows for 1912 a total value of output of 2 061 million
kronor, i. e., 369 kronor, on an average, for each inhabitant in Sweden. It
may be seen from the accompanying map 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 a value
of industrial output amounting to 614 kronor per inhab., while Jämtland
Table 68. View of Swedish Industries in 1912}
Branch of industry Number of factories 2 Number of hands Value of output kronor
Articles of food and consumption .... 3 340 33 7U6 476 142 000
Textile and clothing industrv...... 730 43 607 221 590 000
Hides, skins and hair......... 372 10 258 76 350 000
Oils. tar. rubber, etc.......... 232 3 692 41 771 000
Timber (raw and manufactured) .... 2198 71 789 353 087 (JOO
Paper and paper-goods......... 244 13 050 77 936 000
Manuf. from various vegetable substances . 31 731 2 664 000
Manuf. of stone, clav, charcoal, and peat . 1 661 48 365 104 538 000
Chemical industry........... 306 3 869 43175 000
Ores (mines)3............. 389 14 658 61 781 000
Iron, steel and other metals...... 152 17 263 220 639 000
Metal goods, ships, etc......... 1859 69 441 321470 000
Other branches4 ........... 814 11929 59 650 000
Total I 12328 | 342 338 | 2 0G0 793 000 |
1 While including the mining industry, these figures are far more comprehensive than
those given on Table 66, and are, consequently, not comparable with those last
mentioned. — 2 Factories that carry on the manufacture of several articles of different classes
are included in the table under each of these classes, so that the total number of factories
is much too large. — 3 Inclusive of coal, clay, other ores and minerals. — 4 Chiefly
graphical industries and electric power-works.
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