CRAMMOND, GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY (original) (raw)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
NOTEBOOK “ι”
(“IOTA”)
CRAMMOND, GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1914, July (Vol. LXXVII, Part VIII) (pp. 777-807).
Edgar Crammond, “_The Economic Relations of the British and German Empires_”.
Together the two empires account for 39 per cent of international trade (1911: 26.9 per cent Great Britain ++ 12.5 per cent Germany) and 53 per cent of the world’s mercantile shipping.
Germany
Great Britain
Population
1872
41.23
(million)
31.87
(million)
1888
48.17
”
36.88
”
1910
64.92
”
(1911)
45.22
”
+(1872-1910)
+
23.69
+
13.34
Births per 1000
29.5 (1911)
24.4
Deaths ” ”
18.2
14.8
Urban population
57.4% (1905)
71.3% (1901)
Value of mineralproduction (1911)
£102,000,000
124,500,000
United States
Germany
Great Britain
(million tons)
Coal Output
1911
450.2
234.5
276.2
1886
103.1
73.7
160.0
+347.1
+160.8
+116.2
+336.6%
+218.1%
+ 72.6%
Ditto,
1910
26.5
13.7
6.1
crude steel
1886
2.6
0.9
2.4
+ 23.9
12.7
3.7
+910.3%
+1,335 %
+154.3%
Germany
Great Britain
Shipbuilding:annual output
1898-1904:
240,800 tons
898,000
1913:
618,800
2,203,000
Tonnage of vessels
1892:
809,000 tons
8,102,000
that passed the
Suez Canal
1912:
4,241,000
17,611,000
Percentage of all vessels thatpassed the Suez Canal