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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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1900s<br />

Motala daily 1905<br />

Bank & finance<br />

Health products<br />

Travelling<br />

Journals and books<br />

Cleaning, laundry etc<br />

The most common subject of the commercial ads in Motala Daily in March 1905, was travel,<br />

It was, however, no pleasure trips, instead, they were instead exclusively about emigration to the U.S. The<br />

second most common topic was newspapers and books. Most of these ads were about instruction books, such as<br />

cookbooks.<br />

The economic growth during the period is fantastic<br />

Every measure on economic growth shows a steep rise during the 1900s. The overall measure is the Gross Domestic<br />

Product (GDP) per inhabitant. Here presented in 1995 th price level (Statistics Sweden SCB<br />

2005). As seen in the lower chart we have gone from being primarily manufacturers of physical products to<br />

manufacturers of services (SCB 2006).<br />

GDP per capita (in 1 000s SEK)<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

0<br />

1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990<br />

Contribution to GDP (%)<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

Agriculture, forrest<br />

work and fishing<br />

Manufacturing of<br />

products<br />

20<br />

10<br />

Production of services<br />

0<br />

1900<br />

1906<br />

1912<br />

1918<br />

1924<br />

1930<br />

1936<br />

1942<br />

1948<br />

1954<br />

1960<br />

1966<br />

1972<br />

1978<br />

1984<br />

1990<br />

1996<br />

Public services<br />

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