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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ORGANISATION
OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
STATISTICAL YEAR-BOOK OF THE LEAGUE OF, NATIONS, 1932/33
292 pages, 7 maps* Price: bound in cloth 10/— $3.00
The Statistical Year-Book of the League of Nations is the most complete and authoritative
compilation of internationally comparable official statistics for all countries of the world. It
covers a wide range of information, including the following economic and financial subjects :
Demographic statistics (Territory, state and movement of population).
Labour conditions (Unemployment, strikes, wages, etc.).
Production (Output of agricultural products, minerals, metals, chemicals, electricity,
etc. ; index numbers of industrial production).
International Trade and Balances of Payments.
Transport (Shipping, railways, motor vehicles, etc.).
Public Finance (Budget accounts, public debt).
Monetary and Banking statistics (Note circulation, gold stocks and reserves ; capital
issues ; discount rates, bank deposits ; prices of shares ; exchange rates, etc.).
Prices (Index numbers of wholesale and retail prices; price quotations in gold francs).
In most cases the statistics have been brought up to the end of 1932 or the beginning of
1933 and have been reduced to a common denominator of measure or value.
MONTHLY BULLETIN OF STATISTICS
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Each number contains:
An introduction (2-3 pages) giving, for all countries, a survey of the changes currently
made in the methods of compiling the various statistical series reproduced in the Bulletin.
Special Tables and Diagrams (about 6 pages) on subjects of current economic interest —
e.g., depreciation of certain currencies in relation to their gold parities, gold stocks, gold and
silver production, indices of production of certain groups of industries, movement of world
trade, indices of wholesale prices in francs, in dollars and in sterling, prices of commodities,
stocks of staple commodities, world’s merchant marine (total tonnage in existence, tonnage
launched and under construction, tonnage laid up), number of bankruptcies, bond yields, etc.
Monthly Tables (39 pages) showing regularly the more important economic statistics of
the world relating to industrial, mining and metallurgical production, unemployment, foreign
trade, transport, wholesale price and cost-of-living indices, banking (gold reserves, notes in
circulation, discount rates, exchange rates, commercial and savings bank deposits, indices of
stock exchange securities, capital issues).
A special effort has been made to secure the latest information available for each country
and to keep the series as up-to-date as possible. Great progress has been made in this direction,
thanks to the co-operation of certain Governments, by extending the cable service with overseas
countries. Statistics are given for at least fifteen months in order to facilitate comparison
between the most recent figures and those of the corresponding period of the previous year.
Specimen number sent free of charge.