30 
BULLETIN 1241, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Germany, which is second to the United States in consumption, uses only 20 
per cent of what we now require. British per capita consumption is only half 
of ours, and all other countries fall still further below, as indicated by Figure 23. 
Even though the extension of the consumption curve in Figure 21 proves to be 
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Fig. 22.— The United States is now and has since 1875 been the world's greatest paper market. American 
consumption in 1920 was 56 per cent of that of the entire world. 
in excess of future needs, there is no reason to believe that the United States 
will not continue for many years to be the world's great paper market. This 
must be kept clearly in mind in the development of plans to insure future supplies 
of raw materials. A per capita increase only half that of the last 25 years, with a 
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION OF ALL PAPER IN VARIOUS COU NTRIES -1920 
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Fig. 23.— Per capita consumption of paper in the United States is twice that of Great Britain, which in 
turn leads tho other countries shown. 
population of 150 million, would bring our paper consumption by 1950 to nearly 
15 million tons. Plana for future pulp-wood supplies can hardly be made with 
safety on the basis of paper requirements Lett than the L3| million tons shown in 
Figure 21. 
