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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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Radio recievers appears to be a "hot" product at the<br />

time. Judging from the ads, some people<br />

build their own ones, probably because the industrially<br />

produced ones were so expensive.<br />

In addition, they were technically simple, but built into<br />

fine wooden boxes.<br />

We have come from a world where one maybe<br />

wrote a letter to… (SCB 1960 & 1962)<br />

Post-, telephone & eter consumption<br />

Amount<br />

3000<br />

2500<br />

2000<br />

1500<br />

1000<br />

500<br />

Telephones(1<br />

000s)<br />

Domestic<br />

telephone<br />

calls<br />

(millions)<br />

Domestic<br />

post<br />

(millions)<br />

Radio<br />

licenses<br />

(1000s)<br />

0<br />

Tv licenses<br />

(1000s)<br />

1900<br />

1920<br />

1940<br />

1960<br />

Year<br />

Then we imported more than we exported, now it is the opposite<br />

Nowadays (SCB, 1999), our exports significantly is larger and wider than 100 years ago. Moreover, it<br />

consists a greater extent of highly processed products than raw materials. Since engineering products<br />

now account for 54% of all exports, while wood and mineral products account for 14% and 9%<br />

respectively. And trade the surplus 3 has swung from being negative to positive, see the chart below<br />

(SCB, 1960, 1962, 1973, 1992, 2005).<br />

Net export of goods (million SEK)<br />

140000<br />

120000<br />

100000<br />

80000<br />

60000<br />

40000<br />

20000<br />

0<br />

-20000<br />

1900<br />

1910<br />

1920<br />

1930<br />

1940<br />

1950<br />

1960<br />

1970<br />

1980<br />

1990<br />

2000<br />

3. Trade surplus = net trade = total exports - total imports (current prices).<br />

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