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AUSTRIA - CREDIT 



Amount of Deposits. — The deposits in the savings banks at the end 

 of 191 1 amounted to 6,359,080,964 crs. The increase in the last five years 

 was as follows : 



Year 



Increase (crs.) 



Percentage 



1907 172,887,896 



1908 316,594,440 



1909 326,047,506 



I9IO 325.227,143 



I9II • 314.635,304 



Total increase in the five years 



1907-1911 1,455,392,289 



29.68 



The principal provinces contributing to this very considerable increase, 

 were Bohemia, with 515,000,000 crs. and lyower Austria with 394,000,000 crs. 



The following table shows how this increase was made up, and it appears 

 from it that it is principally due to the accumulation of interest on 

 amounts deposited and not withdrawn. 



1907 . . . 



1908 . . . 



1909 • . . 



I9I0 . . . 

 I9II . . . 



I907-I9II. 



Average Credit per Book and per Inhabitant. — The average amount per 

 book has increased from year to year. In 1910 it was 1,418 crs.; in 1911 it 

 was 1,450 crs. In 1911, the proportion per inhabitant, for the whole of 

 Austria, was 221 crs. against 211 in 1910. In Upper Austria, the average 

 per inhabitant was, in 1911, 557 crs., in Dalmatia it was 4 crs. 76 cent. 



Investment of the Capital of the Savings Banks. — 57-88 % of the de- 

 posits in the savings banks was invested in mortgage loans, urban or rural ; 

 in 1910 the amount so invested had been 57.58%. The following table 

 shows the investments in 1910 and 191 1 : 



