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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. 36 …In the USSR the collective farm, or kolkhoz, is part state and part cooperative. The land…
  • p. 47 …0.66e_ Consumer cooperatives 1.283 i Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 Tax on…
  • p. 50 …Hill, The Measurement of Real Product, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1971; R…
  • p. 103 …Net profits of consumer cooperatives were included with retail trade and public dining. Subsidies. This item…
  • p. 118 …and economic admin- istration, administrative organs of cooperative and social organizations,” for which employment and oth…
  • p. 119 …Social organi- zations include the administrative organs of the All- Union Society of Consumer Cooperatives, the…
  • p. 130 …The profits distributed to consumer cooperative members are now considered to be a transfer receipt rather…
  • p. 133 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members 0.027 9. Total income 217.206 Sources to this…
  • p. 134 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members. See CIA, GNP I970, p. 23. 9. Total income. This…
  • p. 135 …State, cooperative, and commission sales 141.096 (1)Fo0d 84.104 (2) Soft goods 42.734…
  • p. 137 …Charges paid by members of housing 0.075 cooperatives for maintenance lmputed gross rent on urban…
  • p. 138 …Taxes on land and buildings owned by individuals and cooperatives are from Gosb_vudzhet I972, p…
  • p. 139 …Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 d. Retained profits of other organizations 0.321 2…
  • p. 142 …Profits distributed to consumer 0.027 cooperative members 8.’C;solidate_d total outlays 215.841…
  • p. 147 …Consumer cooperatives 1.283 (1) Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 (2) Tax on income…
  • p. 160 …532) plus a share of the amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives. Altough consumer cooperatives are primarily…
  • p. 162 …532) and amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives on industrial capital (0.083 billion ru~ bles-—see…
  • p. 164 …retained profits and income taxes of consumer cooperatives and other organizations, respectively. 7. Total pra/its…
  • p. 257 …Other state purchasing orga- nizations are the Central Union of Consumer Cooper- atives, and the Ministries…
  • p. 286 …Review of I978 and Outlook for I97 9, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, April 1979, p…
  • p. 330 …exceeded the prices paid in state and cooperative retail outlets by an average of ~59 percent…
  • p. 331 …index of retail prices in state and cooperative outlets. The index which shows almost no change…
  • p. 332 …In coverage, it differs from the CIA index of consumption, mainly by inclusion of cooperative housing…
  • p. 335 …purchases of these items in state and cooperative retail outlets and in collective farm markets, including…
  • p. 339 …The index implicitly covers all goods purchased in state and cooperative retail out- lets, except those…
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Table 4
Soviet Industrial Production Indexes
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1 938“ 1957 1958
1970=100
11195911”
Industrial materials 21.61 24.24 26.37 28.66 31.81 35.53 38.52 42.07 46.43 50.89
Ferrous metals 22.63 25.57 29.08 31.91 34.79 38.32 41.21 43.66 46.61 50.67
Nonferrous metals 19.00 21.54 24.24 27.03 29.58 34.72 36.81 38.88 41.04 44.38
Fuels 24.03 26.25 28.05 29.99 33.07 37.63 41.77 46.57 50.87 54.45
Electric power 12.48 14.20 16.25 18.33 20.49 23.10 26.03 28.51 32.00 35.97
Z
Chemicals and
petrochemicals
13.03 14.31 15.61 17.22 19.59 22.52 25.26 27.65 31.02 33.72
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Wood, pulp, and paper 40.37 45.80 47.60 49.63 54.66 57.65 59.71) 63.91 69.87 76.29
Construction materials 14.18 16.13 18.19 21.22 24.73 29.37 32.61 37.88 45.19 52.00
Total machinery 21.61 23.73 25.78 28.07 30.60 34.20 36.67 39.16 42.10 45.89
Including:
Producer durables 14.29 15.31 16.96 19.63 22.01 24.94 2s.-I5 33.40 37.97 41.81
Consumer durables 9.97 11.00 12.60 15.23 18.27 22.54 24.86 27.12 29.53 33.33
Consumer nondurables 24.79 28.79 31.00 34.17 37.42 40.47 44.24 46.71 50.33 54.88
Light industry 27.79 32.66 34.75 38.06 42.55 45.59 48.28 50.51 54.53 58.70
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Processed food 22.27 25.55 27.85 30.91 33.12 36.18 5|.es_
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Total industry 22.18 24.90 27.01 29.46 32.42 35.99 38.95 41 96 45 73 49.99
“M
1960 1961 1962 1963 -196? 1965 1968
40.86 43.54 i46.82
1967 1968 1969
Industrial materials 54.38 57.71 61.56 65.82 70.59 75.47 80.16 85.51 89.80 93.60
T
Ferrous metals 55.15 59.83 64.42 68.43 73.42 78.11 82.95 87.63 91.62 94.82 __
Nonferrous metals 48.37 52.42 57.07 61.53 65.21 69.88 76.69 83.50 90.17 94.66
Fuels 57.73 60.56 64.06 69.44 73.95 78.31 s3.3_3 87.69 90.77 T9475 Z’
Electric power 39.65 44.46 50.16 55.80 62.03 68.26 73.48 79.13 86.09 92.90
Chemicals and
petrochemicals
37.13 40.82 45.12 49.98 56.85 65.32 71.85 79.02 84.67 s9.§2
V
Wood, pulp, and paper 76.40 76.29 78.09 81.38 85.07 86.77 87.17 91.52 93.71 9573718"
Construction materials 58.27 62.57 65.77 67.60 70.88 75.76 81.22 86.97 90.36 92.16
Z
Total machinery 50.07 54.30 59.84 63.67 67.75 71.48 74.72 79.72 86.90 92.93
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Including:
_Pro_d_ucer durables 44.82 48.26 54.55 58.67 63.72 68.53 72.50 78.52 86.34 92.17 _l
_ _Cor_1s_umer durables 37.00 41.10 45.61 49.74 54.01 58.52 64.90 72.96 81.99 90.73 __
Consumer nondurables 57.75 60.92 63.89 65.72 68.51 73.17 77.40 83.44 88.99 94.34
Light industry 62.07 64.34 66.56 67.47 69.47 70.70 75.96 82.26 88.75 94.40
Processed food 54.12 58.06 61.66 64.26 67.70 75.25 78.61 84.42 89.18 94.30“
W
Total industry 53.59 57.18 61.42 65.11 69.30 73.77 77.90 83.26 88.72 93.50
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