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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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  • 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 C-1
Derivation of the Index of Investment in Machinery and Equipment
Year (1) (2) (3)
Expenditures in 1955 Prices (billion rubles)
Collective Farms State Organizations Total
(4) (5) (6)
Expendflures Expendhures Index
in 1969 Prices in 1973 Prices (1970= 100)
(billion rubles) (billion rubles)
1950 Q2 10 12 135
1951 Q2 10 12 135
1952 02 12 14 148
1953 Q3 13 16 156
1954 Q3 40 43 18A
1955 05 48 53 225
1956 O5 60 66 283
1957 Q6 67 73 311
1958 03 T4 83 352
1959 LO 19 &9 381
1960 L0 89 99 422
1961 Q9 99 108 1L6 459
1962 L1 1L0 121 131 SL6
1963 L3 121 134 145 510
1964 L5 137 152 164 648
1965 L7 146 163 115 169 693
1966 172 1&5 714
1967 1&6 199 7&7
1968 203 2L5 848
1969 209 225 8&9
1970 253 244 1000
1971 266 257 1053
1972 2&8 218 1139
1973 3L1 299 1225
1974 341 329 1348
1975 3&5 371 1520
1976 407 1663
1977 410 1762
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