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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.

  • p. 18 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 19 …Oleg 1-Ioeffding, Soviet National Income and Product in 1928, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954…
  • p. 21 …In theory, the Soviets " Basic Principles of the System of Balances of the National Economy, United…
  • p. 50 …Lawrence Grose, Real Output Measurement in the United States National Income and Product Accounts, US Department…
  • p. 166 …The subsidies on housing, recreation, and the press were allocated to the housing, recreation, and other…
  • p. 181 …Duke University Press, 1972), pp. 155-194; with Wade Robertson, “Industrial Production in the USSR," Soviet…
  • p. 183 …tons, square meters, units of production, or some other convention- al measure. Examples of this type…
  • p. 210 …For example, the production of commodities pub- lished in physical units includes intraplant turnover, but the…
  • p. 222 …bulbs Units Narkhoz Machine tools sector ml Meta? cutting machine tools Rubles Narkhoz Forge presses sector…
  • p. 249 …Hardt, eds., Soviet Economic Statistics, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972 Treml and Hardt U…
  • p. 261 …Khrushchev stat- ed that “figures for average yield (of grain) which you read in the press…
  • p. 308 …central press. 8 Because the official data have again been made available to the United States…
  • p. 320 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 321 …2 For details, see United Nations, Comparisons ofthe System of National Accounts and the System of…
  • p. 328 …Judging from a mass of anecdotal evidence from the Soviet press concerning the poor quality of…
  • p. 342 …Although the average size of a dwelling unit increased between 1950 and 1978-by 17 percent…
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Table B-14 1970=100
Derivation of the Wholesale Trade Index
Year Ferrous Non- Fuels Machinery Chemicals Wood, Construction Light Food Total
Metals ferrous Pulp, Materials Industry Industry
Metals and Paper
1950 22.6 19.0 24.0 21.6 13.0 40.4 14.2 27.8 22.3 23.1
1951 25.6 21.5 26.3 23.7 14.3 45.8 16.1 32.7 25.5 26.2
1952 29.1 24.2 28.1 25.8 15.6 47.6 18.2 34.7 27.9 28.4
1953 31.9 27.0 30.0 28.1 17.2 49.6 21.2 38.1 30.9 31.0
1954 34.8 29.6 33.1 30.6 19.6 54.7 24.7 42.6 33.1 34.0
1955 38.3 34.7 37.6 34.2 22.5 57.6 29.4 45.6 36.2 37.5
1956 41.2 36.8 41.8 36.7 25.3 59.7 32.6 48.3 40.9 40.7
1957 43.7 38.9 46.6 39.2 27.7 63.9 37.9 50.5 43.5 43.5
1958 46.6 41.0 50.9 42.1 31.0 69.9 45.2 54.5 46.8 47.2
1959 50.7 44.4 54.5 45.9 33.7 76.3 52.0 58.7 51.7 51.5
1960 55.1 48.4 57.7 50.1 37.1 76.4 58.3 62.1 54.1 54.9
1961 59.8 52.4 60.6 54.3 40.8 76.3 62.6 64.3 58.1 58.4
1962 64.4 57.1 64.1 59.8 45.1 78.1 65.8 66.6 61.7 62.3
1963 68.4 61.5 69.4 63.7 50.0 81.4 67.6 67.5 64.3 65.4
1964 73.4 65.2 73.9 67.7 56.8 85.1 70.9 69.5 67.7 69.1
1965 78.1 69.9 78.3 71.5 65.3 86.8 75.8 70.7 75.3 73.7
1 966 82.9 76.7 83.3 74.7 71.8 87.2 81.2 76.0 78.6 77.8
1967 87.6 83.5 87.7 79.7 79.0 91.5 87.0 82.3 84.4 83.4
1968 91.6 90.2 90.8 86.9 84.7 93.7 90.4 88.8 89.2 88.8
1969 94.8 94.7 94.8 92.9 89.8 95.4 92.2 94.4 94.3 93.7
1970 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1971 103.8 107.0 104.8 108.1 108.1 102.8 106.7 104.5 102.6 105.2
1972 107.3 112.7 109.8 115.6 115.3 104.8 112.3 105.3 105.9 109.6
1973 111.6 119.6 115.1 125.3 125.7 107.7 119.0 108.2 106.7 114.8
1974 116.3 126.9 120.7 136.0 137.7 109.6 124.6 111.1 115.2 122.1
1975 121.5 132.9 127.8 146.4 151.0 113.6 130.2 114.3 121.1 129.1
1976 124.7 137.1 132.5 154.5 158.3 113.4 134.8 119.0 119.7 132.9
1977 125.6 141.3 138.1 163.2 166.6 114.0 137.4 122.1 124.5 138.0
1978 128.4 145.9 142.5 172.4 172.5 113.4 140.7 125.2 123.2 141.7
1979 128.4 150.2 146.7 182.0 172.9 110.2 141.2 127.4 127.2 145.8
1980 128.0 151.4 150.1 190.0 181.9 113.2 142.6 130.0 125.4 148.8
Source: See text.
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