Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-11
TRADE OF THE WORLD
AGGREGATE COMMERCE AMOUNTS
no ABOUT e2 BILLION DOLLARS.
Statistics Compiled by the Bureau OF
Statistics-Population, Area, Money
and Indebtedness.

| expenditures Indebtedness, currency and
| stocks of money of the principal countries
Of the world is The title Of a>statement
| just is9ued by the Department Of Commerce
and Labor through its bureau of statistics.
The statement includes all countries and
colonies for which statistics of commerce
and other conditions above mentioned are
available, and thus presents an approx
| n.ately complete picture of commercial and
| financial conditions throughout the entire
civilized world
The total exports of the countries and
colonies included are stated at 81, 27s, &C.
600 and the total imports at 81, 525, 1856 900,
making the aggregate commerce $21 ,SD4,-
S91 COO For most of the countries the
| figures stated relate to the year 1902, in a
few cases they are for 1901, and in some
cases for 1903. The aggregate of the worlds
commerce at the present time may there
fore be set down, in round figures, es $22,-
0O00O.OoO. While, presumably, all exports
become, In turn, imports, the stated value
OF these imports exceeds by more than one
billion dollars the stated value of the mer-
chandise in question when stated as ex-
ports.
The population of the countries and
colonies included in this statement is given
at Last 15gVO, and their area at 40 7g1, 1855
square miles. This figure of population In
the countries included in the table seems
70 JUSTIFY an estimate Of 1,6O0.O00G00 as
the approximate total Of the worlds popu-
lation at the present time.
The total revenue, for the latest available
date OF the countries and colonies included
In the list is set down at 1885,, 1901 goo, and
the total expenditures at s, 1888, $4,000.
The stocks of money in the countries
named are stated at $l1, 800, 800 600 or In
round terms. twelve billions of dollars but
IN this statement the value of the monetary
stock of sfiver-standard countries has not
peen changed to conform to the decline in
silver values. The monetary stock Of Mex
leo and other countries where the Mexican
dollar circulates is given in terms of Mexi-
can dollars OF this total of twelve billions
or dollars, representing the total stocks of
money in the countries in question, St, $780,
uo0G0O is stated as gold. s.. $50 100000 as
silver and 1888 100000 as uncovered paper
The Largest Imports.
The largest imports of any single nation
are those of the United Kingdom, s2.571,-
10000; Germany, second. q, $40. IFS, 600: the
United States third, $1.O25 $4,000; Neither
| lands fourth, ss67, 3Gs COO, and France fifth,
$e4So46,ON The per capita imports are,
stated in the order of magnitude per ca pita:
Netherlands. 1920 New Zealand, $72.9
Belgium, $65.62; Switzerland S4S9; United
Kingdom, s6l.2s; commonwealth of Aus
tralia. $54.74; the imports of the United
states are given at $12.76 per capita. The
per capita exports are: Netherlands. s137 .O0
New Zealand. s795s; commonwealth of
Australia, s54.54; Belgium. $53. 80; Switzer-,
land $50.2S; those of the United States are
given at $N.32 per capita These figures
IKE tire Others OF commerce quoted relate
to domestic exports only.
Gold IL stated as the standard of currency
in all of the countries named, except Bo-
livia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
San Salvador, China, French East Indies
Mexico, Paraguay and certain German col
onies. These ten countries, whose standard
of currency is given silver show a total
commerce of 1881 1914 600, out of a total
commerce Of So, 900, OOC,0 600, or slightly less
than per cent of the grand total.
National Indebtedness.
In the statement of indebtedness of the
various countries the totals by countries, in
the order of their magnitude, are: France,
Sc, S63, 312S 1872; united Kingdom So, SS5, 1866 I333
Russia, So, 333. 1888, 1888; Italy, 81 500 sos COO:
Spain $2,051 1856. $40; Austria Hungary. 81
112.730.247; British India, 81 1O2, 9O5, 1879;
commonwealth of Australia, 81 ,o47 ,S19, e29
The debt of the United States Is stated at
1925, oil 1897. The indebtedness of the Ger
man empire is given at $6SS, s49, 400, and of
ropean countries-France, the united king
dom, Germany, Italy and Spain-show an
aggregate indebtedness of over seventeen
billions of dollars, thus forming one-half of
the total indebtedness of the world The
per capita debt, as stated in the order of
magnitude, is: New Zealand, S327.11; COM
monwealth of Australia, $277 10; Portugal
$15102 France, $150.31; Uruguay S132 81:
Honduras, S124.19; Spain, $110.72; Argen-
tina. 500 0S; united kingdom, So. 50; Neither
lands, $S6.62; Belgium. sS1. %; Italy SIS. So
The debt of the United States is given at
S11.51 per capita.