578. Statistics for Great Britain, Germany, and France, 1867-1909
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STATISTICS FOR GERMANY 1870-1908 FURNISHED BY THE CENTRALVERBAND DES DEUTSCHEN BANK- UND BANKIERGEWERBES AND THE DEUTSCHE OEKONOMIST Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis STATISTICS FOR GERMANY. PART I. GENERAL STATISTICS ILLUSTRATING THE GROWTH OF POPULATION, WEALTH, BUSINESS, AND COMMERCE, 1871-1908. Page. TABLE NO. 1.—Population of the German Empire, annually, 1871-1908 151 2.—Transactions of German clearing houses, 1883-1908 152 3.—Exports and imports of the German Empire, annually, 1872-1908 (special commerce) 153 4.—Exports and imports of gold, annually, 1880-1907 154 5.—Statistics of railways, 1880-1908 155 6.—Production of iron in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 156 7.—Production of coal in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 157 8.—Production of lignite in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 158 9.—Production of rock salt in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 159 10.—Production of crude potassium salts (kalirohsalz) in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 160 11.—Production of lead ore in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 161 12.—Production of copper ore in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 162 13.—Production of gold and silver ore in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 163 14.—Production of zinc ore in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 164 15.—Total of all mining production in the German Customs Union, 1871-1907 165 16.—Development of German merchant marine, 1871-1908 166 17.—Revenues of the German Government, 1872-1908 167 18.—Incomes of the population of Prussia as indicated by the income tax returns, 1893-1908 168 19.—Consumption of certain foreign commodities within the Customs Union, 1871-1907 169 20.—Consumption of beer, tobacco, and sugar in Germany, 1871-1906 170 PART II. STATISTICS OF BANKS AND BANKING IN GERMANY. TABLE NO. 1.—Statement of the Reichsbank in yearly and decennial averages, 1876-1907 173 2.—Statements of the Reichsbank, weekly, 1888-1907 174 3.—Proportion of cash holdings to note circulation and total demand liabilities, annually and decennially, 1876-1907.. 194 4.—Annual dividends of the Reichsbank paid to Government and to stockholders, 1876-1907 195 5.—Average monthly note issue of Reichsbank and other banks of issue for the 20 years, 1888-1907 196 6.—Average annual note circulation of Reichsbank and of other banks, 1876-1907 197 7.—Average weekly note circulation and bank reserves of Reichsbank, 1888-1907 198 8.—Official discount rate at the Reichubank, yearly, 1876-1907 199 9.—Date and nature of each change in Reichsbank discount rate, 1876-1907 200 10.—Average interest rates for short-time credit in Germany, 1888-1907 201 11.—Capital, surplus, and deposits of the German joint stock banks, 1876-1907 202 12.—Capital, surplus, and deposits of various groups of banks, classified by size of capital, 1876-1907 203 13.—Consolidated statement of the note-issuing banks, including the Reichsbank, 1888-1907 213 14.—Individual statements of the note-issuing banks at the close of 1907 213 15.—Consolidated statement for the credit or joint stock banks of Germany, 1888-1907 214 16.—Individual statements of the credit or joint stock banks at the close of 1907 215 17.—Colonial and foreign banks at the close of 1907 224 18.—Consolidated statement of the mortgage banks, 1888-1907 224 19.—Individual statements of the mortgage banks at the close of 1907 225 20.—Consolidated statement of the land credit institutions in Prussia, 1888-1907 227 21.—Individual statements of the land credit institutions in Prussia, at the close of 1907 228 22.—Deposits in German savings banks, 1875-1907 229 23.—Annual increase in savings-bank deposits in Germany, 1876-1907 230 24.—Number of savings banks in Prussia, 1870-1906 231 25.—Number and size of savings-bank accounts in Prussia, 1870-1906 232 26.—Amount of deposits in Prussian savings banks at the close of year, 1870-1906 233 27.—Investments of the Prussian savings banks, 1870-1906 •. 234 28.—Number of municipal savings banks in Prussia, 1875-1906 235 29.—Number and size of deposit accounts in Prussian municipal savings banks, 1875-1906 236 147 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 148 CONTENTS. Page. TABLE NO. 30.—Amount of deposits in Prussian municipal savings banks at the close of year, 1875-1906 237 31.—Investments of the Prussian municipal savings banks, 1875-1906 238 32.—Statistics of agricultural cooperative credit societies belonging to the Imperial Federation, 1892-1906 - 239 33.—Statistics of other agricultural cooperative credit societies, 1894-1906 240 34.—Statistics of the Schultze-Delitzsch cooperative credit societies, 1870-1907 241 35.—Average statistics of the Schultze-Delitzsch cooperative societies, 1870-1907 242 PART III. STATISTICS OF MONEY, GOLD SUPPLY, GOLD MOVEMENTS, AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE. TABLE NO. 1.—Total and per capita stock of gold and of bank notes, annually, 1875-1907 245 2.—Coinage of gold and silver in Germany, 1872-1907 246 3.—Monthly movements of gold to and from foreign countries, 1892-1907 247 4.—Quoted rates of foreign exchange on New York, London, and Paris, monthly, 1888-1907 251 5.—Quoted rates of foreign exchange on New York, London, and Paris, weekly, 1898-1907 256 NOTE.—All of the tables in Part I and Part III and Tables 1-9, 11, 12, 22-35 in Part II were furnished by the Centralverhand des Deutschen Bank- und Bankiergewerbes. Table 10 in Part II was furnished through the courtesy of the Reichsbarik. Tables 13-21 in Part II were furnished by the Deutsche OekonomisU Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis PART I GENERAL STATISTICS ILLUSTRATING THE GROWTH OF POPULATION, WEALTH, BUSINESS, AND COMMERCE, 1871-1908. (COMPILED BY THE CENTRALVERBAND DES DEUTSCHEN BANK- UND BANKIERGEWERBES.) 149 72138—10 10 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis STATISTICS ILLUSTRATING THE GROWTH OF POPULATION, WEALTH, BUSINESS, AND COMMERCE, 1871-1908. TABLE No. 1.—POPULATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE, ANNUALLY, 1871-1908. Year. Number. 1871 40,997,000 1872 41,230,000 1873 41,564,000 1874 42,004,000 1875 42,518,000 1876 43,059,000 1877 43,610,000 1878 44,129,000 1879 44,641,000 1880 45,095,000 1881 45,428,000 1882 45,719,000 1883 46,016,000 1884 46,336,000 1885 46,707,000 1886 47,134,000 1887 47,630,000 1888 48,168,000 1889 48,717,000 1890 49,241,000 1891 49,762,000 1892 50,266,000 1893 50,757,000 1 1894 51,339,000 1 1 1895 52,001,000 1 1896 52,753,000 1897 53,569,000 1898 54,406,000 1899 55,248,000 1900 56,046,000 1901 56,874,000 1902 57,767,000 1903 58,629,000 1904 59,475,000 1905 60,314,000 1906 61,177,000 1907 62,097,000 1908 63,017,000 151 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis NATIONAL MONETARY COMMISSION. TABLE No. 2.—TRANSACTIONS OP GERMAN CLEARING HOUSES, 1883-1908. Number of— Devices presented. Percent Balances age of credited to presented giro devices Year. Amount Average accounts cleared Clearing Members. Number. (thousands (thou (thousands by com houses. of marks). sands of of marks), a pensa marks). tion^ 1883 7 85 149,550 887,547 5.9 1884 ' 9 112 1,979,012 12,130,196 6.1 3,121,843 74.3 1885 9 112 2,085,449 12,554,444 6.0 3,269,911 73.9 1886 9 110 2,205,563 13,356,482 6.1 3,516,518 73.7 1887 9 108 2,334,307 14,207,193 6.1 3,430,354 75.9 1888 9 107 2,500,183 15,514,563 6.2 3,676,869 76.3 1 1889 9 116 2,709,770 18,048,962 6.7 4,351,340 75.9 1890 9 116 2,825,314 17,991,301 6.4 4,162,441 76.9 1891 9 117 2,895,245 17,663,274 6.1 4,323,731 75.5 1892 9 118 2,989,835 16,762,791 5.6 4,148,968 75.2 1893 9 117 3,164,308 18,122,616 5.7 4,385,443 75.8 1894 9 115 3,330,874 18,233,033 5.5 4,400,330 75.9 i 1895 9 115 3,633,426 21,121,262 5.8 4,803,784 77.3 1896 9 115 3,889,778 22,720,177 5.8 5,246,923 76.9 1897 9 116 4,073,632 24,016,725 5.9 5,453,371 77.3 1898 10 124 4,490,303 27,975,278 6.2 7,127,921 74.5 1899 10 128 4,897,154 30,237,664 6.2 7,599,797 74.9 1900 10 126 5,186,237 29,472,744 5.7 6,533,468 77.8 1901 10 126 5,409,985 28,922,035 5.3 6,250,803 78.4 1902 11 135 5,791,908 29,969,050 5.2 6,544,680 78.2 1903 11 136 6,303,359 31,136,532 4.9 6,236,714 80.0 1904 11 132 6,664,638 32,635,273 4.9 6,980,494 78.6 1905 12 137 7,341,995 37,602,991 5.1 8,543,437 77.3 1906 13 149 8,177,404 42,036,098 5.1 9,404,708 77.6 1907 14 160 9,183,997 45,313,106 4.9 8,966,382 80.2 1908 17 198 10,531,271 45,960,854 4.4 9,869,551 78.5 a Correspondingly large amounts are deducted from the accounts of other members.