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Prices of grain exports

Wheat exports from the Danubian ports (1837–1852)

Quantities (in quarters) and values (in sterling pounds)[1]

Port	Galaţi			Brăila
Year	Quantity (quarters)	Average price (shillings)	Total value (pounds)	Quantity (quarters)	Average price (shillings)	Total value (pounds)
1837	98,380	15	73,785	75,792	14	53,054
1838	171,813	16	137,450	61,524	15	46,143
1839	150,378	24	180,454	143,184	-	-
1840	230,568	26	299,738	132,596	24	159,115
1841	100,855	24	121,026	84,692	22	93,161
1842	154,675	21	162,409	160,121	20	160,121
1843	107,634	17	91,489	322,343	16	257,874
1844	166,535	16	133,228	347,888	17	295,705
1845	180,032	24	216,038	314,940	23	362,181
1846	110,902	27	149,718	327,526	26	425,784
1847	180,860	32	289,376	390,818	30	586,227
1848	113,605	22	124,966	159,484	20	159,484
1849	173,797	23	199,867	117,346	20	117,346
1850	140,652	23	161,750	283,290	19	269,126
1851	134,474	21	141,198	283,106	18	254,795
1852	187,555	22	206,311	343,584	20	343,584

Maize exports from the Danubian ports (1837–52)

Quantities (in quarters) and values (in sterling pounds)[2]

Port	Galaţi			Brăila
Year	Quantity (quarters)	Average price (shillings)	Total value (pounds)	Quantity (quarters)	Average price (shillings)	Total value (pounds)
1837	86,964	8	34,786	24,313	8	9,725
1838	58,374	8	23,350	37,200	8	14,880
1839	128,649	12	77,189	57,172	-	-
1840	189,037	17	160,681	68,586	16	54,869
1841	35,394	16	28,315	26,818	15	20,114
1842	93,531	12	56,119	10,221	11	5,622
1843	140,662	10	70,331	121,309	9 s / 6 d	57,622
1844	174,023	11	95,713	128,221	10 s / 6 d	67,316
1845	157,101	13	102,116	124,714	12	74,828
1846	336,627	20	336,627	163,145	19	154,988
1847	318,605	25	398,256	619,115	25	773,894
1848	143,727	19	136,541	292,115	18	262,904
1849	258,763	18	232,887	332,532	16	266,026
1850	122,875	18	110,588	149,734	15 s / 6 d	116,044
1851	350,682	16	280,546	646,617	12 s / 6 d	404,136
1852	329,279	16 s / 6 d	271,655	725,259	13 s / 6 d	489,550

Romania’s grain exports (1861–1915)

Quantities (in thousand tons), values (in thousand lei) and average price[3]

Year	Total exports (quantities in thousand tons)		Total export (Values in thousand lei)		Average price (lei per ton)
Year	Wheat	Maize	Wheat	Maize	Wheat	Maize
1861	255.3	251.3	42,163	28,133	165.1508	111.9499
1862	309.9	208.8	48,265	23,367	155.7438	111.9109
1863	258.4	220.3	50,782	28,867	196.5248	131.0350
1864	356.5	294.7	64,889	37,715	182.0168	127.9776
1865	NA	NA	44,541	27,964	NA	NA
1866	233.9	134.6	54,889	17,407	234.6687	129.3239
1867	343.8	17.5	63,036	3,823	183.3508	218.4571
1868	436.7	229.5	97,257	31,785	222.7090	138.4967
1869	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
1870	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
1871	362.6	366.7	47,140	32,999	130.0055	89.9891
1872	300.9	357.2	39,114	32,152	129.9900	90.0112
1873	246.8	309.6	32,082	27,864	129.9919	90.0000
1874	247.3	214.1	32,155	19,273	130.0243	90.0187
1875	358.5	222.5	46,603	20,025	129.9944	90.0000
1876	130.2	261.3	16,931	23,521	130.0384	90.0153
1877	143.1	298.2	18,604	26,834	130.0070	89.9866
1878	298.3	480.4	38,775	43,235	129.9866	89.9979
1879	450.5	565.8	58,566	50,922	130.0022	90.0000
1880	399.7	393.4	51,961	35,404	130.0000	89.9949
1881	203.0	844.4	26,391	75,992	130.0049	89.9953
1882	400.0	636.8	52,005	57,315	130.0125	90.0047
1883	401.6	606.1	52,204	54,552	129.9900	90.0049
1884	265.9	571.8	34,568	51,460	130.0038	89.9965
1885	383.5	668.0	49,859	60,122	130.0104	90.0030
1886	305.1	743.6	39,660	66,921	129.9902	89.9960
1887	502.2	733.3	65,281	65,993	129.9900	89.9945
1888	830.6	376.2	107,903	33,856	129.9097	89.9947
1889	945.4	528.7	122,901	47,579	129.9989	89.9924
1890	922.8	746.3	119,968	67,169	130.0043	90.0027
1891	661.4	700.9	85,979	63,082	129.9955	90.0014
1892	771.0	657.7	100,232	59,191	130.0026	89.9970
1893	703.0	1212.1	91,384	109,090	129.9915	90.0008
1894	683.6	694.4	88,869	62,499	130.0015	90.0043
1895	971.2	330.8	126,261	29,775	130.0051	90.0091
1896	1224.8	443.9	159,222	39,952	129.9984	90.0023
1897	434.0	781.8	56,414	70,358	129.9862	89.9949
1898	580.3	1119.3	75,434	100,733	129.9914	89.9964
1899	181.3	595.5	23,573	53,593	130.0221	89.9966
1900	721.7	434.1	93,818	39,068	129.9958	89.9977
1901	568.5	1161.4	73,908	104,530	130.0053	90.0034
1902	918.5	1092.6	119,410	98,332	130.0054	89.9982
1903	883.1	789.5	108,306	71,053	122.6430	89.9975
1904	710.5	458.3	92,368	41,247	130.0042	90.0000
1905	1716.4	36.6	251,342	5,107	146.4356	139.5355
1906	1727.8	603.4	231,523	65,774	133.9987	109.0056
1907	1151.4	1389.7	207,256	166,766	180.0035	120.0014
1908	714.3	735.6	140,367	98,569	196.5099	133.9981
1909	857.7	739.0	178,402	102,716	208.0005	138.9932
1910	1841.4	594.8	329,609	69,597	178.9991	117.0091
1911	1458.0	1555.3	244,803	183,218	167.9033	117.8024
1912	1371.6	1085.0	256,496	146,699	187.0050	135.2065
1913	1152.6	974.4	208,152	115,765	180.5934	118.8064
1914	559.1	1143.1	101,933	140,264	182.3162	122.7049
1915	24.2	459.1	12,350	211,200	510.3306	460.0305

[1] Paul Cernovodeanu, Beatrice Marinescu and Irina Gavrilă, “Comerţul britanic prin Galaţi şi Brăila între 1837–1852”, Revista de Istorie, 31:1 (1978), 635–639; Cernovodeanu, Marinescu, “British Trade in the Danubian Ports of Galatz and Braila between 1837 and 1853”, Journal of European Economic History, 8:3 (1979), 716–717 (percentage and totals recalculated by me).

[2] Cernovodeanu, Marinescu and Gavrilă, “Comerţul britanic”, 635–639; Cernovodeanu, Marinescu, “British Trade”, 716–717 (percentage and totals recalculated by me).

[3] Average prices as they results by dividing total value to quantity – Victor Axenciuc, Evoluţia economică a României. Cercetări statistico-istorice, 1859–1947, vol. III, Monedă – Credit – Comerţ – Finanţe Publice (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2000), 369–379 (Tables 132–133).

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