Facts and figures about the crisis

Percentages of the value of World Trade (precious metais not included) of die undermentioned countries in 1929, according to the Statistical Year-Book of the League of Nations.

(The slump has probably not gready altered the percentages.)

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«"ffi* ^ ^egory. ^

United States .... 13,93

United Kingdom . . . 13,16

Germany 9,\A

France 6,24

Canada ...... 3 48

British India 3 07

feP?»1) 2,89

Holland 2,80

Netherlands East Indies . 1,54

Italy 2,79

Belgium 2,76

Argentine Republic . . qj»7

China 212

Australia ...... 200

Czecho Slovakia . . . 1/75

Malacca (Br.) .... 149

Sweden ...... 141

SP»*n • 1,37

owitserland ..... 1,35

Russia 1 gg

Denmark 1,90

Brazil 1,30

Union of South Africa . 1,23

Austria 1^12

Poland 0Ï98

Irish Free State . . . 0,76

Egypt 0.75

New Zealand .... 0,72 Cuba 0,71

Norway ...... 0,71

Chili 0.69

Mexico ...... 067

Algeria 037

Hungary 034

£°rca 0,53

Rumania 0,52

FMa°d 0,50

Philippine Islands . . . 0,45

') Japan is, although not officially, on silver.