Statistical Year-Book of the World Power Conference

Abstract

COMPILATION of a volume containing comparable statistics of resources, production, stocks, imports and consumption of power and power sources of all countries of the world would appear to be a superhuman task, bearing in mind the present lack of international classification of power types and widely different methods of collecting and recording data employed by countries and public bodies throughout the world. The International Executive Council of the World Power Conference has for a number of years past sponsored the systematic compilation of inventories of power resources by national committees and by Government and other organizations, and has so far as possible ensured their return in comparable form by the circulation of definitions of each power type. This action on the part of the Council has now made possible the issue of a year-book relative to the years 1933 and 1934.

Statistical Year-Book of the World Power Conference

No. 1: 1933 and 1934. Edited, with an Introduction and Explanatory Text, by Frederick Brown. Pp. 111. (London: World Power Conference, 1936.) 20s. net.