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of the metallurgical industries. The porcelain factories of Rbretrand and Gustavsberg and the glass factories of Kosta and Kejmyre produce wares that have achieved a high reputation in the markets of the world. Innumerable factories for the production of finished products are scattered all. oyer the countryside. Of the workmen employed in the industries of Sweden, those who reside in the country exceed in number the workmen who live in towns. The timber and wood-work industries of Sweden are of great importance. The public forests (mostly on crown-lands) have an area of 8,193,981 hectares (not including settlement and crown-farm forests amounting in 1918 to an area of 517,769), and yielded, in 1918, 5,636,240 cubic metres of timber. • In 1918 there were in Sweden 1,266 sawmills and planing mills with 40,379 workpeople who turned out sawn or planed timber to the value of 371,788,200 kronor ; 565 factories for joinery and furniture with 12,707 work- people, the output for the year being valued at 80,730,143 kronor; 108 factories for wood-pulp with 13,566 workpeople, output 228,741,807 kronor ; and 74 paper and pasteboard mills with 11,813 workpeople, output 233,930,962 kronor. The extent of some other Swedish industries in 1918 is shown in the following table : —
Branch of industry
Factories
Workpeople
Value of output
Kronor
Bar-iron and steel works
128
24,462
555,148,895
Iron and steel-goods factories . .
894
15,059
229,229,062
Mechanical workshops . . .
817
54,429
554,244,407
Wharfs and dock-yards .
108
12,708
93,98S,560
Metal-goods factories 1 . . .
154
5,615
104,099,897
Htone-quarries and -dressing works .
137
3,729
S, 527.596
Brick works . . .
245
8,775
52,105. S57
Flour and grain mills . . .
741
2,786
149,622,788
Malt-liquor breweries . . .
302
4,766
46,153,549
Tobacco factories ....
17
4,596
108,168,009
Dairies .
974
2,726
70,877,039
Margarine factories
12
198
8,8*0,789
Cotton-spinning and -weaving works .
65
8,886
40,720,828
Wool-spinning and -weaving works .
114
9,1*8
104,822,269
Needle-works . . . .
143
7,704
88,500,719
Tanneries .
162
2,449
1U7.035.624
Shoe factories . .
101
7,068
136,429,109
Match factories . . . .
V.l
7,893
46,777,061
Other chemical industry works .
146
♦,2*1
98,562,784
Klectric-power work . . .
366
3,259
74,1 85.97S
1 Manufacture of metnls other than iron.
In 1918, 289,113 men, 50,516 women, 34,980 boys, and 10,671 girls (under 18 years of age) were employed in factories.
Commerce.
The total customs-duties levied in 1918 amounted to 37,248,413 krouor, In 1919 to 100,899,715 kronor, and in 1920 to 146,053,125 kronor.
The imports and exports of Sweden, unwrought gold and silver and coin not included, have been as follows (18 "16 kronor = £1) : —
-
1916
1917
1918
1919 1920 1
Imports Exports
£
62,745,988 S5.703.574
£
41,773,733 76,465,387
£
68,517,225 75,024,083
i 10,770,022 87,688,709
£
187,415,833 127,421,500
i Provisional
