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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 5 Percent
Soviet Industrial Production: Annual Rates of Growth
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Industrial materials 12.2 8.8 8.7 11.0 11.7 8.4 9.2 1o.4'_'__9T6mw
Ferrous metals 13.0 13.7 9.7 9.0 10.1 7.6 5.9 6.3 §Y7“M
Nonferrous metals 13.3 12.5 11.5 9.4 17.4 6.o_ 5.6 5.6 s.1l_M1
Fuels 9.2 6.9 6.9 10.3 13.8 11.0_ 11.5 9.2 7.0
Electric power 13.8 14.4 12.8 11.8 12.7 12.7 9.5 12.3 12.4 ___i
Chemicals and petrochemicals 9.8 9.1 10.3 13.8 14.9 12.2_ 9.5 12.2
Wood, pulp, and paper 13.4 3.9 4.3 10.1 5.5 3.6 7.0 9.3 9.2’
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Construction materials 13.7 12.8 16.7 16.5 18.8 11.0_ 16.2 19.3 15.1
Total machinery 9.8 8.6 8.9 9.0 11.8 7.2 6.8 7.5 9.0
Including:
Producer durables 7.1 10.8 15.7 12.1 13.3 14.1_ 17.4 13.77 19i___
Consumer durables 10.3 14.6 20.9 20.0 23.3 10.3 9.1 23.9% 12.9
Consumer nondurables 16.1 7.7 10.2 9.5 8.2 9.3_ 5.6 7.7 9.0
Light industry 17.5 6.4 9.5 11.8 7.1 s.9_ 4.6 13.0% 7.6_
Processed food 14.7 9.0 11.0 7.2 9.3 12.9 6.6 7.5 1o.4_
Total industry 12.2 8.5 9.1 10.1 11.0 8.2 7.7 9.0 9.3
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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 19663 *I6z7”""1;11 1969
Industrial materials 6.9 6.1 6.7 6.9 7.2 6.9 6.2 6.7 5.0 4.2
Z
Ferrous metals 8.8 8.5 7.7 6.2 7.3 6.4 6.2 5.7 4.6 3.5
Nonferrous metals 9.0 8.4 8.9 7.8 6.0 7.2 9.77 8.9 3.0 5.6”"
Fuels 6.0 4.9 5.8 8.4 6.5 5.9 6.4- 5.2 3.5 74.4
Electric power 10.2 12.1 12.8 11.2 11.2 10.0 7.6
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Chemicals and 10.1 9.9
petrochemicals
10.5 10.8 13.7 14.9 10.0 10.0 7.2 6.1
M
Wood, pulp, and paper 0.1 -0.1 2.4 4.2 4.5 2.0 0.5 5.0 2.4 1.8
Construction materials 12.1 7.4 5.1 2.8 4.8 6.9 7.2 7.1 3.9 2.0
8
Total machinery 9.1 8.5 10.2 6.4 6.4 5.5 4.5 6.7 9.0 6.9
Including:
Producer durables 7.2 7.7 13.0 7.5 8.6 7.5 5.8 8.3 10.0 6.8’
Consumer durables 1 1.0 1 1.1 11.0 9.1 8.6 8.4 10.9 12.4 12.4 10.7
Consumer nondurables 5.2 5.5 4.9 2.9 4.2 6.8 5.8 7.8 6.7 6.0
Light industry 5.7 3.6 3.5 1.4 3.0 1.8 7.4 8.3 7.9 6.4
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Processed food 4.7 7.3 6.2 4.2 5.3 11.2 4.5 7.4 5.6 5.7
Total industry 7.2 6.7 7.4 6.0 6.4 6.5 5.6 6.9 6.5 5.4
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