Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-06
aaiseellaueu,ls geadins.
WORLDS WEALTH.
Is Over $4ooooo 100000 and ths United
States Has Ono Fourth Of Il.

States Has One OF Il.
The total wealth of the world, while
not exactly known, has been estimated
at 100000, 100000. This Is probably
an underestimate Of the actual amount
Of money and property in civilized
and semi civilized lands. OF this total
the greatest part is owned by Amert-
cans and Europeans. The United
States has somewhere near 100000
600, 900 or about one-fourth Of the
whole. The United Kingdom is the
richest country Of Europe, its wealth
being estimated at ,911,S06,000,000, or
e 302 per capita. OF the total Eng
lands share was a10,0e2, 100000; Scot
lands R1,094,0O0,000; Ireland's 1885,
600, 900. In American money (at $3.50
pound sterling) Great Britain's wealth
in 1896 was $56,66S, 100000. A recent
estimate makes it $5S,000.000 1000, or
$1,442 per capita Gin 1901). The an
nual income Of Englands population
is said to be $500, 100000, while the
yearly saving is $1,94s.000.00 1t
should be remembered that a large
amount of British capital is also in
vested in the colonies Of the empire
and in foreign lands.
France is the next richest nation OF
Europe. Mulhall estimated It's wealth
in 1895 at as,6sO, 100000, or 9252 per
capita. A recent estimate Of Frances
wealth makes it s4s,OOo. 100000, or ST.
257 per capita (1901.) According to
Mulhall, Germany's wealth in 1895 was
ss,O52 900, 900, or 9165 per capita.
Prussia's share was more than half
(e4,s40, 100000 Bavaria's, R94s,000.-
900; Saxonys, s456,000,000; Wurtem-
berg's, e37O,0OO,OO0, while smaller
German states had a1,s37, 100000. Ac-
cording to q more recent estimate,
Germany's wealth Is $4,000, ,000,o 900, or
s7os per capita (1s01) German money
loaned or invested abroad amounts to
So, ,0OO, 100000 or more. Russia's wealth
In 1895, as Mulhall estimated 1t,
amounted to a6,425,000,000, or a61
per capita. A recent estimate places
Russia's wealth at $32,000,000,000 or
about 1895 per capita, estimating the
population in 1901 at 10s,O00,0OO')
The other ten countries Of Europe are
named in the order Of their financial
Importance: Austria Hungary, whose
wealth was estimated by Mulhall IN
1895 at $21,64s, 100000; Italy, $685.
900 900; Spain, s11,424,000,00 Scan
dinavia, $6,22O,sO0,oo0; the Danubian
States. s4,s24 100000; Belgium, s4,742,-
400 900; Holland, s4,224,OOO,OOO; Swift
zerland, $2,261, 600, 900; Portugal. $1S7s,-
500 900; Greece, $1,065,600,0o
From Mulhall's figures 1t appears
that the English are the best off finan-
cially of any people in the world, with
the Scotch next. The four other
countries that have most wealth per
CAPITA are Australia, France, the Unit
ed States and Denmark. In 1895 the
wealth per capita in the following
countries was: England, 1854; Scot
land, $1,257; Australia, SLIPS; France
s1,210; United States, s1,123; Denmark.
s1,104.
There are six other countries whose
wealth per capita exceeded $720: Can
ada, s94O; Holland, $74s; Belgium, $739;
Argentine, s739. Among the great ma
tions the percentage Of debt to wealth
Is lowest in the United States, being
less than 1 per cent, while that OF
France Is the highest, over IL per
cent. After England and Scotland
Australia Is the richest country in the
world in proportion to its population.
Mulhall figured its wealth per capita
in 1895 as s1,229. He reckoned the to-
tai annual earnings Of the seven colo
nies Uncluding New Zealand) at $l,-
032 .OOO, 900, or an average Of $245 per
capita, against $211 per capita In the
United States and $173 in Canada.
In proportion to its population the
value of manufactured articles in Aus
tralia Is greater than in any other
country in the world. The total pro-
duction in primary industries. accord
Ing to Coghlan's statistical account OF
Australasia" (1900,) was s104,254,OOo
in 1899, or e232-5 per capita, while
the industrial production of other
countries per capita was approximately
as follows; Canada, s163; United
States, s142-3; France, ella; Den
mark, e103; Sweden, s10; Belgium,
es4-5; Germany, 1928; Austria,
sS1-3; Spain, e81-5; United King
dom, s8. The national debt Of Aus
tralasia in 1900 was a1,1s3,O55,O 5,OO0.-
Gunton's Magazine.