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FOREST INDUSTRIES. 639
Tablb 86. Sweden’s imports and exports of timber (unwrought and wrought).1
Average for
the years
Imports.
Thousands of kronor.
wrought. Wrought. T.tal.
Exports.
Thousands of kronor.
nr
wrought. Wrought.
Total.
In % of the
total
Imports.’ Exports.’
1871,75....................888 848 1,73» 84,739 6,439 91,178 0-70 4468
1876,80....................887 1,085 1,972 88,308 10,596 98,904 073 47 18
1881/85....................1,696 1,639 3,335 96,506 13,460 109,996 105 45 12
1886/90..........1 1,970 1,767 3,737 98,519 18,257 110,776 1 12 42 84
1891 95..........i 2,315 2,238 4,553 113,098 23,621 136,719 1 30 4296
1896,00..........1 3,962 1,479 5,441 144,356 35,123 179,479 1’20 5005
la 1897.........i 4,936 1,552 6,488 150,303 31,564 181,867 159 50-77
• 1898.........1 4,000 1,526 5,526 146,402 30,923 177,325 1 22 I 5142
• 1899.........1 3,213 1,538 4,751 140,118 38,436 178,554 094 I 49 85
> 1900.........1 4,407 1,519 5,926 153,750 46,809 200,559 111 i 51-25
267,000 dozen deals and boards, about 200,000 dozen of which were exported.
Forty years later, our country owned 59 steam saw-mills and 4,933 water or
wind saw-mills, and the export of deals and boards alone amounted to 1,478,000
dozen. After the lapse of fifteen years more, this export had been trebled again,
and the total export of all classes of rough timber rose to a value of upwards
of 100 million kronor, and in our times the value of the timber export has
attained the figure of 150 million kronor (in 1897 and 1900).
In the foreign trade of Sweden, its timber accordingly takes a
most prominent part, respecting the exports of the country. Although,
under the present heading, we only have under consideration »unwrought
or rough» (embracing also partly wrought) timber, we introduce in
Table 86 wrought goods as well, in order to give an idea of the
importance of the wood industry as a whole in our country.
During the last years it will thus be seen that timber has represented
about half of our total export. A gladdening presage is the very
strongly rising export of wrought timber. If, to return to the subject
now before us, we consider only the mnwrought» (sawn or hewn) goods,
their percentage of our total export during the quinquennial periods of
1871/1900 has amounted, consecutively, to: 41-43, 42-08, 39-60, 36i4, 35-54,
and 40-26 %, figures which, on the whole, indicate a falling-off in the
relative importance of these exports. In 1900 the figure amounted to 39-29
In ordinary years Sweden at the present day takes the foremost
place among the timber exporting countries of the world. This is owing
to its rich supply of timber, the facilities for getting the timber out
of the woods — afforded us by the winter’s cover of snow and the
frozen lakes and marshes —, the numerous water-courses which are
1 Somewhat inappropriately our statistics include in the same group as unwrought
timber also sawn, hewn and planed timber, i. e., deals, boards, etc., the exports of which
uaonnted In 1800 to a value of about 132 million kronor. A krona is equal to 110 shilling
»’ 0-268 dollar. — Wood goods in our statistics also include matches. — * Imports and
export» of wood by % of the entire imports and exports of all wares.
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