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USSR: Measures of Economic Growth and Development, 1950-80

Central Intelligence Agency · 1982-12-08 · 399 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Joint Committee Print, dated December 8, 1982, gathers studies that the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. It gives estimates of Soviet gross national product for 1950 to 1980, with indexes of industrial production, agricultural production and consumption, and explains the methods and data behind them. The foreword says official Soviet statistics inflate growth and that the CIA measures offer a more accurate picture. The document contains no UFO material.

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Table B-12
Valuation of Collective Farm Ex—Village Market and Commission Sales in 1970 Prices
T 8*“
Price
(rubles per
ton)
1950 1955 1960 1966 1970 1974 T95?
Grain 248
Thousand tons 3,290 2,330 2,270 2,100 2,004 1,500 1,500
Billion rubles 0.816 0.578 0.563 0.521 0.497 0.372 0.372
Potatoes 1 79
Thousand tons 6,460 6,530 5,690 5,610 6,002 5,910 5,960
Billion rubles 1.156 1.169 1.019 1 .004 1.074 1.058 1.067
Vegetables 381
Thousand tons 1,560 1,940 1,580 1,460 1,781 1,790 1,138
Billion rubles 0.594 0.739 0.602 0.556 0.679 0.682 0.434
Meat: slaughter weight
Thousand tons 793 776 686 894 1,093 900 1,060
Meat 2,378
Thousand tons 646 629 558 716 884 713 866
Billion rubles 1.537 1.495 1.326 1.703 2.103 1.695 2.059
Animal fat 1,900
Thousand tons 121 128 110 155 178 157 162
Billion rubles 0.229 0.243 0.210 0.294 0.339 0.298 0.308
Milk 316
Thousand tons 2,420 2,860 1,860 1,360 1,048 910 958
Billion rubles 0.765 0.904 0.588 0.430 0.331 0.288 0.303
Eggs 126 H
Million 1,370 3,140 3,170 2,780 2,522 2,130 1,963
Billion rubles 0.173 0.396 0.399 0.350 0.318 0.268 0.247
Total (billion rubles) 5.270 5.523 4.707 4.858 5.340 4.660 4.790
3 The price of eggs is 126 rubles per thousand eggs.
Sources: The quantities for 1950, 1955, and 1960 are taken from
Jerzy F. Karcz, “Quantitative Analysis of the Collective Farm
Market,” American Economic Review 54, June 1964, unpublished
appendix. The quantities for 1966 are derived by extending the
Karcz series by means of commodity indexes for collective-larm-
market sales presented in Narkhoz I968, p. 654. The quantities for
1970, 1974, and 1976 are calculated as in CIA, GNP I970—that is,
marketed output less all procurements and the difference, if any,
between the physical and accounting weight of procurements. The
prices are from CIA, GNP I970, pp. 32-35
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