131*
SWEDEN
Liabilities
The Riksbank
Other Banks
Total
Original subscribed capital
Notes in circulation
Bank post bills in circulation
Current accounts
Deposit accounts ....
Deposit on savings bank accounts
Liabilities to Swedish banks
Liabilities to Foreign banks
Kronor
50,000,000
759,877,200
5,360,841
171,578,843
300
4,898.871
13,362,945
Kronor 601,233,650 513,361,621
168,414,850
1,231,013,171
2.,"v r ,4.(l22,204
959,701,792
429,688,586
1 54,962,558 127,439,546 686,828,922
Kronor 651,233,650 525,s5l,621 759,877,260 168,755,091 1,458,132,014 2,854',02&,504 959,701.702 429,688,586 149,800,929 127,430,540 600,191,867
1,017,518,560
7,662,256,900
8,079,775,400
The savings-banks statistics (exclusive of Post Office) are as follows :-
Number of depositors at end of year Deposits at end of year, kronor Capital and reserve fund, ditto.
1917
1918
1,893,9011 1,987,194, 2,106,880
1, 207, 257,344'l,482,955,4S0'l, 023,660,373
92,308,653; 97,851, 541 j 101,706,842
1919
At the end of 1919 the Post Office Savings Bank had 660,000 depositors and 83,022,137 kronor of deposits.
The Private and Joint-Stock Banks also act as Savings Banks. Their statistics of depositors and deposits are as follows : —
Number of depositors at end of year Deposit* at end of year, kronor
1,592,969 659,716,490
1,061,060 887,120,922
1,833,762 960,571,800
1920
1,041,34$
959,701, 7'.'2
Money, Weights, and Measures.
By a treaty signed May 27, 1873, with additional treaty of October 16, 1875, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark adopted the same monotary system.
The Swedish Krona, of 100 ore, is of the value of 1*. \\d., or about 18 kronor to the pound sterling.
The gold 20-kronor piece weighs 8 960572 grammes, '900 fine, containing 8 '0645 grammes of fine gold, and the silver krona weighs 7 '5 grammes, '800 fine, containing 6 grammes of fine silver. Iron coins were issued in 1917, 1918, and 1919.
The standard of value is gold. National Bank notes for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 1000 kronor are legal means of payment, and the Bank is bound to exchange them for gold on presentation. The 1 kronor notes have been issued since September, 1914.
No gold coins were made at the Swedish mint during 191 9, but 24,076,160 silver, bronze, and iron coins, with a nominal value of 1,903,434 kronor, were issued in 1919. It is intended gradually to withdraw the iron coins.
The metric system of weights and measures is obligatory.
