FUTURE DEMAND FOR TIMBER 



427 



Table 248. — Apparent consumption of paper by princij)al grade classes in the United States, selected years, 



1899-1955 



[Thousand tons] 



Year 



News- 

 print ' 



Ground- 

 wood 2 



Book, 

 fine, and 

 absorb- 

 ent ' 



Coarse 



and 

 indus- 

 trial ' 



Tissue 



and 



sanitary * 



Building 

 paper 



Total ^ 



1899 

 1904 

 1909 

 1914 

 1917 

 1918 

 1919 

 1920 

 1921 

 1922 

 1923 

 1924 

 1925 

 1926 

 1927 

 1928 

 1929 

 1930 

 1931 

 1932 

 1933 

 1934 

 1935 

 1936 

 1937. 

 1938. 

 1939. 

 1940. 

 1941. 

 1942. 

 1943. 

 1944. 

 1945. 

 1946. 

 1947. 

 1948. 

 1949. 

 1950. 

 1951. 

 1952. 

 1953. 

 1954. 

 1955. 



569 

 861 

 1, 119 

 1, 547 

 1, 778 

 1,760 



1, 841 



2, 196 

 2, 013 

 2, 451 

 2, 814 



2, 821 

 2,988 



3, 516 

 3, 492 

 3, 561 

 3, 813 

 3,496 

 3,260 

 2, 831 



2, 711 



3, 177 

 3,309 

 3,675 

 4,276 

 3, 101 

 3, 546 

 3, 775 

 3,956 

 3, 749 

 3, 523 

 3, 200 



3, 424 



4, 200 

 4,683 



5, 160 

 5, 523 

 5, 856 

 5, 903 



5, 943 



6, 086 

 6,082 

 6, 466 



54 

 63 

 100 

 104 

 130 

 133 

 150 

 170 

 92 

 150 

 166 

 170 

 189 

 209 

 296 

 235 

 363 

 221 

 311 

 125 

 285 

 154 

 274 

 199 

 518 

 436 

 540 

 550 

 643 

 610 

 586 

 593 

 636 

 776 

 821 

 772 

 674 

 705 

 791 

 806 

 771 

 808 

 891 



490 



738 



887 



1, 163 



1, 221 



1,267 



1, 380 



1,576 



1, 034 



1, 436 



1, 611 



1, 602 



1,808 



1, 871 



1,949 



2, 309 



2, 264 



2,250 



1, 828 



1, 626 



1, 726 



1, 888 



2,015 



2,460 



2,328 



2,017 



2, 431 



2,534 



3,022 



2, 803 



2,644 



2, 432 



2,503 



3, 111 



3, 409 



3, 581 



3, 338 



3,877 



4, 167 



3,950 



4, 164 



4,056 



4,385 



535 



644 



763 



911 



844 



891 



858 



1, 044 



827 



1,048 



1, 184 



1,235 



1, 292 



1, 420 



1, 525 



1, 467 



1, 606 



1, 581 



1,401 



1, 244 



1,440 



1,356 



1, 632 



1, 879 



2,011 



1, 820 



2, 176 



2, 352 

 705 

 605 

 364 

 462 

 533 

 841 

 057 



3, 229 



2, 911 



3, 545 

 3, 875 

 3,480 

 3,742 

 3,902 

 4,301 



28 



44 



78 



115 



146 



150 



190 



195 



186 



215 



251 



242 



281 



310 



316 



348 



388 



362 



395 



359 



407 



397 



473 



495 



535 



543 



642 



721 



899 



974 



957 



955 



971 



1,038 



1,081 



1, 183 



1, 186 



1,358 



1,466 



1, 352 



1,484 



1, 555 



1, 679 



297 



2 145 



2 226 



2 244 



2 300 



2311 



2 195 



2 375 



2 217 



419 



344 



348 



577 



645 



620 



560 



649 



460 



388 



290 



305 



325 



437 



546 



602 



564 



653 



677 



909 



995 



871 



876 



868 



1, 028 



1, 281 



1,314 



1, 143 



1, 419 



1,378 



1, 293 



1, 312 



1,348 



1, 515 



1,773 

 2,469 



3, 220 



4, 103 

 4,279 

 4,371 

 4,403 

 5,376 

 4,309 



5, 709 

 6,389 



6, 424 



7, 118 

 7,943 



8, 171 

 8,432 



9, 108 

 8, 401 

 7, 625 



6, 518 

 6,943 



7, 312 



8, 175 

 9,309 



10, 350 



8,575 



10, 005 



10, 616 



12, 132 

 11,907 

 10, 852 

 10, 512 

 10, 847 



13, 078 



14, 448 



15, 376 

 14, 788 



16, 752 



17, 692 

 16,914 

 17, 622 

 17,715 

 19, 180 



' Includes changes in stocks for the years 1939 and 

 1942-55, inclusive. 



2 Production only. 



3 Production only for years prioi to 1937. 



■• Data for individual years may not add to total because 

 of rounding, statistical discrepancies, the inclusion of 



stocks for some items, and the lack of import-export data 

 for some classifications. 



Source: 1899-1938 and 1940-41, American Paper and 

 Pulp Association, Statistics of Paper, reporting statistics 

 of the Bureau of the Census. 1939 and 1942-55, U. S. 

 Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 



rate. Other advertising media have been offering 

 strong competition, daily newspapers may be 

 approaching the hmit of practical size and the 

 consumption of newspapers per inhabitant may 

 be reaching a saturation point. Analysis of per 

 capita consumption indicates that some slowing 

 down in the rate of increase has occurred. These 



considerations appear to justify a lowering of the 

 1975 estimate of medium demand for newsprint 

 to about 10.0 million tons. This represents an 

 increase of 54 percent over 1955 consumption. 



Groundwood paper — used for telephone direc- 

 tories, catalogues, wallpaper, mimeogi-aph and 

 business machine papers, scratch pads, and many 



