APPENDIX IX
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TONNAGE CONSTRUCTED BY ALLIED AND NEUTRAL NATIONS SINCE AUGUST, 1914
Construction of merchant shipping is shown in the following table, which gives tonnage completed since the beginning of the war for the United Kingdom, United States, and for other Allied and Neutral Nations.
Period. United Kingdom. Gross tons. United States. Gross tons. Other Allied and Neutral. Gross tons. World Total. Gross tons.
1914 675,610 120,000[1] 217,310 1,012,920
1915 650,919 225,122 325,959 1,202,000
1916 541,552 325,413 821,036 1,688,000
1917 1,163,474 1,034,296 505,585 2,703,355
1918 1st quarter 320,280 328,541 220,496 869,317
2nd quarter 442,966 559,939 240,369 1,243,274
3rd quarter 411,395 834,250 232,127 1,477,772
October 136,100 357,532[1] 50,000 543,632
1918 (10 months) 1,310,741 2,080,262 742,992 4,133,995
[1] Estimated.