New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-03
FINANCE STATISTICS,
Interesting Figures Regar ling Rev
enue and Deh1s of Nations.
Few Powers Would Be Able to Pay I,
Pressed by Their Creditors-Facts
Relative to Incomes of
Worlds Governments.

A statement just issued by the depart
ment of commerce and labor gives some
interesting statistics relative to the area,
population, commerce, revenue, expen-
ditures, indebtedness, currency and
stocks of money Of the principal coun-
tries of the word. The statement in
cludes all countries and colonies for
which statistics of commerce and the
other conditions above mentioned are
mately compete picture of commercial
and financial conditions throughout the
entire civilized world.
The total exports of the countries and
colonies included are stated at $40 ,27S,-
5000 and the total imports at $11 ,525,-
755 900, making the aggregate commerce
$21 ,804 1871 900. For most of the coun-
tries the figures relate to the year 1902,
In few cases they are for 1901 and in
some cases for 1908. The aggregate Of
the worlds commerce at the present time
may therefore be set down, in round fig
ures, as $22, 900 ,O00, 900.
The population Of the countries and
colonies included in this statement is
given at 1,4S7 ,159, 900 and their area at
&C, 7O1 1886 square miles. This figure of
population in the countries included in
the table seems to justify an estimate of
1850, OOO, 600 as the approximate total of
the worlds population at the present
time.
The total revenue, for the latest avail
able date, of the countries and colonies
included in the list is set down at 1884,
301 900 and the total expenditures ats7.-
939, $40, OOO
The total Indebtedness of the countries
named in the list is given at $34 1889, 6O4,-
97O
The stocks of money in the countries
named as stated at 81 ,99e 300 900. In
this statement the value of the monetary
stock of silver standard countries has
not been changed to conform to the de-
cline In silver values. The monetary
stock of Mexico and other countries
where the Mexican dollar circulates is
given in terms of Mexican dollars. OF
this total of $4,000 900 900, representing
the total stocks of money in the coun-
tries in question: 1885 900, 900 is stated
as gold, $3.50 10000 as silver and ST.
1853. 500 900 as uncovered paper.
The largest imports of any single ma
ton are those of the United Kingdom,
s2,571 ,416,OOO; Germany second, 81 .34O,-
17S.OOO; the United States third. s1O25,-
$4,000; Netherlands fourth, ss67 ,3Os,-
900, and France fifth, $84S.O46.OOO.
Gold is stated as the standard of cur
rency in all of the countries named ex-
cept Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras. Mic
aragua, San Salvador, China, French\I
East Indies, Mexico, Paraguay and GER
tain German colonies.
In the statement of Indebtedness of
the various countries the totals by coun. !
tries, in the order of their magnitude. |
are: France, S. $50 ,312 1892; United
Kingdom, 1885, 1e6 1873; Russia, SO. 1888
esS.3SS; Italy, $3.50 COS 900; Spain, ST.
O61 ,389,972; Austria Hungary, s1,112-;
PAT; British India, S1.1O2 ,9O5 1879: !
commonwealth of Australia, 81 DAT ,819,-
629.
The debt Of the United States is stated
at 1925, oil ,637. The Indebtedness of the
German empire is given at s698. S49, 400 !
and of the German states 2,e87, 621 900.