DENMARK. 



RURAL MORTGAGE DEBT IN DENIVIARK. 



oFFiciAi, sources: 



IjANDBRUGETS Prioritetsgaeld (Agricultural Moftcage Debt). In the " Statistiske Efter- 

 retninger, utgivet af det Statistiske Departement " (Statistical Bulletins, published 

 by the Government Statistical Office), March, 1914, Copenhagen. 



L,ANDBRUGETS PRIORITETSGAELD I DE ENKELTE DELE AF I<ANDET. (Agricultural Mortgage 



Debt in the Various Parts of the Country). In " Statistiske Efterretninger, utgivet af 

 det Statistiske Departement " (Statistical Bulletins published by the Government 

 Sfa/istical Office), April, 1914. Copenhage!i. 



The Danish Government Statistical Office has just published a return 

 of the mortgage debt on rural land in Denmark, on the basis of the figures 

 reported at the date of the new valuation of the land for cadastral purposes 

 in 1909 (i). 



We shall now briefly consider this work. 



The 169,460 rural holdings in Denmark were estimated to have a 

 value of 2,691,000,000 crs. in respect to the land alone, and the live and 

 dead stock was estimated at 689,000,000 crs. The total value, then, that 

 could be mortgaged was 3,310,000,000 crs. The total amount of the 

 mortgages registered was 1,417,000,000 crs. or 42.5 % of the above total 

 amount ; yet this percentage seems to be too high, as in the valuation of 

 1909 for purposes of the cadastre very low estimates were made. 



The following table shows how many rural holdings were mortgaged 

 and how many were unencumbered. 



(i) See Article on the '^Establishment of, the Cadastre in Denmark", \\\ the number 

 of this Bulletin for June, 19 14. 



