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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. 19 …Oleg 1-Ioeffding, Soviet National Income and Product in 1928, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954…
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  • p. 308 …central press. 8 Because the official data have again been made available to the United States…
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  • p. 321 …2 For details, see United Nations, Comparisons ofthe System of National Accounts and the System of…
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Table D-5 Billion Rubles
Soviet Gross National Product in
Established Prices by End Use, 1970
1.Consumption 211.083 _
fa. Goods _
166.478
_ (l)Food 107.926
(2) Soft goods 44.294
(3) Durables 14.258
b. Services 44.605
(1) Housing 3.429
(2) Utilities 3.478
(3) Transportation 5.400
(4) Communications 1.200
5.497
2.608
14.380
(5) Repair and personal care
__ (6) Recreation
V (7) Educition
8.613
124.374
90.220
(1) Machinery and equipment 26.053
(8) Health
2. Investment
a. New fixed investment
(2) Construction and other capital outlays 59.800
__ (3) Net additions to livestock 4.367
b. Capital repair l9._000
c. Inventories 15.154
3. Other public-sector expenditures 47.802
i a. Government administrative services 9.030
(1) General agricultural programs 1.004
0.636
3.821
(2) Forestry
(3) State administration and the administra-
tive organs of social organizations
‘J7 (4) Municipal and related services 3.569
1.180
0.628
(a) Culture
(b) Municipal services
(c) Civilian police 1.761
b. Research and development 10.343
c. Outlays n.e.c. 28.429
(1) Net exports 0.961
(2) Defense n.e.c., unidentified outlays, and 27.468
V
statistical discrepancy
4. Gross national product 383.259
141
Sources to this table:
1. Consumption
a. Goods
(l) Food is the sum of items 1,a,(1); 1,b,(1); 3,a,(1); and 3,b,(1) in
table D-2.
(2) Soft goods is the sum of items l,a,(2); 1,b,(2); 3,a,(2); and 3,b,(2)
of table D-2.
(3) Durables. See table D-2, item 1,a,(3).
b. Services
(11) Housing. See table D-2, item 2,a.
(2) Utilities. See table D-2, item 2,b,(1).
(3) Transportation. See table D-2, item 2,b,(2).
(4) Communications. See table D-2, item 2,b,(3).
(5) Repair and personal care. See table D-2, item 2,b,(4).
(6) Recreation. See table D-2, item 2,b.(5); and table D-4, item 1,c.
(7) Education. See table D-2, item 2,b,(6); and table D-4, item 1,a.
(8) Health. See table D-2, item 2,b,(7); and table D-4, item 1,b.
2. Investment
a. Newfixed investment
(1) Machinery and equipment. See table D-4, item 3,a.(l),(a).
(I!) Construction and other capital outlays. See table D-2, item 5,a;
and table D-4, item 3,a,(1),(b).
(31) Net additions to livestock. See table D-2, item 5,b; and table D-
4, item 3,a,(1),(c).
b. Capital repair. See table D-4, item 3,a,(2).
c. Inventories. See table D-4, item 3,b.
3. Other public-sector expenditures
a. Government administrative services. See table D-4, item 2.
b. Research and development. See table D-4, item 4.
c. Outlays n.e.c. See table D-4, item 5.
4. Gross national product. This is the sum of items 1 through 3.
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