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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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Table A-2 (continued)
Gross Sector Output Indexes: Machinery
Energy and Power Electrotechnical Machine Forge
Machinery Machinery and Tools Presses
Equipment
Precision Metallurgical and
Instruments Mining Machinery
and Equipment
1950 16.97 14.42 9.68 6.46 2.62 42.53
1951 20.57 17.43 11.56 8.62 3.34 44.58
1952 26.51 18.93 13.80 11.46 4.24 51.95
1953 35.04 20.96 16.48 15.24 5.38 59.12
1954 39.87 22.16 19.68 20.28 6.80 57.02
1955 46.71 25.32 23.52 27.40 8.71 57.22
1956 47.51 28.72 26.50 31.22 11.24 60.28
1957 44.76 32.64 29.87 35.57 14.50 62.75
1958 48.38 35.59 33.66 40.53 18.71 69.93
1959 52.33 41.74 37.94 46.18 22.28 76.72
1960 62.45 47.57 42.84 52.44 26.51 80.61
1961 72.90 53.81 49.80 57.32 30.75 78.34
1962 81.95 61.49 53.58 59.76 35.71 86.35
1963 82.46 67.24 56.95 71.14 40.35 85.21
1 964 91.14 71.37 62.07 65.45 42.33 88.08
1965 97.45 76.73 65.24 65.45 46.14 89.24
1966 106.12 79.01 72.80 71.54 53.67 92.91
1967 106.64 86.09 80.78 78.86 61.56 99.71
1968 112.91 90.23 88.04 87.40 71.19 103.32
1969 104.93 94.73 93.35 94.31 83.59 101.60
1970 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
1971 99.63 110.96 107.67 110.98 114.35 103.53
1972 93.00 116.81 116.56 120.73 135.76 104.59
1973 97.55 121.67 129.14 133.74 162.58 108.58
1974 107.81 123.99 141.82 150.81 195.84 109.62
1975 117.86 130.74 152.66 161.79 229.35 109.64
1976 115.35 131.53 164.34 184.84 261.79 119.35
1977 113.07 134.93 181.08 198.07 305.93 121.70
1978 113.44 136.84 197.48 216.43 355.52 121.93
1979 117.75 136.94 207.14 231.80 410.37 121.41
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