Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-05
WORLDS COAL OUTPUT.
Production and Consumption for the
Past Fifteen Years.

The coal production and consumption OF
the world during the past fifteen years are
presented in some tables just prepared by
the treasury bureau of statistics. 1hase
show that while the united kingdom is sun
the largest coal producer of the world, the
United States is a close second. and If the
present rate of gain is continued will soon
become the leading coal-producins country
of the world. The coal production of the
united kingdom in 1897 was 202, 100000 tons,
that of the United States 1I9,00oGo0 tons.
Germany 81 900 900, France 100000, Bel
GUM 22Ou0 600 Austria Hungary, 12,0OO,OCO,
Russia nearly 10 100000 Australasia nearly
G,0O,oJ9, Japan over 50oOUo, British India
100000, Canada nearly 4,UED,oOO, and Spain
100000, while no other country reached L.
900 OUDtons in produc ton. The United Estates,
however has gained much more rapidly
during the fifteen years under consideration
than has the united kingdom, or, indeed,
any of the important coal-producing coun-
tries of the world, her gain during the
fifteen years being over 10 per cent, and
that of the united kingdom less than "A per
cent.
logical survey that the coal product of the
United States in 1898 219 $4,000 short
tons against 226, PSI 900 for Great Britain
shows that the United States Is rapidly
gaining upon that country a coal pro-
Queer and Will soon become the leading
cual-producing nation of the world.
AS an exporter of coal, however, the
United States takes low rank in proportion
to it's production, and stands fourth in the
list of coal exporting countries. In 1897,
the expectations Of coal from the united
kingdom were 100000 TONS from Ger
MANY 1000 900, from Belgium over 5000
900, and from the United States a little less
than 40GO,OOo, though in 1898 the quantity
exported was slightly above 100000 tons.
Australasia comes next to the United States
a coal-eXportng country, her exports
nearly 2.(hkbUD tons. while
France exported about 2,5vO,OoO, Japan q
OOo.O0O, and Canada about 100000 in 1897.
France is the largest coal-importing cOun-
try, her importat lions In 1897 being nearly
T. 000OOo tons, while Germany imported o.
U.D,U10, Austria-Hungary 561O,CO, Italy A.,
80 go Canada nearly 100000, Belgium
nearly 3,eH,WyO, Russia 100000, Sweden
over 2,2ID 900 the United States nearly l.,
100000, and Australasia ,Oo0O0O tons, while
no other country imported as much as L.
Op0,oo0 tons.
Great Britain is also the largest consumer
of coal in proportion to population, her coal
consumption in 1897 being a.s7 tons per
capita. that of Belgium g tons, the Unit
ed States 242, Germany 1.5S, Canada 1.25,
France OBS, Australasia 0.97, Sweden $50,
Austria-Hungary OBJ, Spain 0.19, Italy 013,
Russia O.U9, and Japan O07 of a ton per
capita.
According to these figures, which
Summa riZed from a report of the coal pro-
duction of the principal countries of the
world. just issued by the British govern
ment, the United States produces
about 30 per cent of the coal of the world,
the coal product OF the fourteen countries
enumerated in the tables being in 1897 $685.
Oo1,ts0 tons, of which the United States
produced 1190OD,o00 tons, while in 1883 she
produced but - per cent of the total coal
product of the countries enumerated. AS
above indicated, the 1898 figures make an
even more satisfactory showing for thu
United States, whose product in long tons
for that year is 1916, 2S2,n;1, against 202-
Oh, OGO long tons produced in Great Britain.