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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. 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 A-2 (continued)
Gross Sector Output Indexes: Machinery
Pumps and Log and Paper Light Industry Food Industry Printing
Compressors Machinery and Machinery and Machinery and Machinery and
Equipment Equipment Equipment Equipment i_
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1950 3.24 10.11 33.67 28.52 19.01
1951 4.44 11.25 34.65 29.51 19.171
1952 5.93 12.50 35.67 30.52 13.03”
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27.28
1953 8.01 13.90 36.91 31.77 1 3.
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1954 9.66 15.46 38.35 33.20 17.24»
1955 11.63 17.19 40.21 35.09 22.25
_36.70
39.28
1956 13.32 19.11 41.88 36.74 28.29
36.98-V777"
1957 16.34 21.25 43.70 38.58 32.9<i
1958 18.38 23.63 45.86 38.12 41.57
3.5”
51.33
1959 27.16 26.70 48.56 42.48 48.53" 42.46
1 960 34.88 29.53 51.63 47.33 55.501 F5l?4:”.
1961 38.99 31.42 55.16 49.92 58.00‘ 51.76
1962 43.55 37.09 59.26 52.66 60.11’
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5 °..___ .
f 58.39 __
1963 47.28 40.16 63.35 55.55 59.13 i328. ,1
1964
1965
56.74
66.50
45.12
51.03
61.86
65.35
58.59
64.83
s4.9§q
70.04
65.32
1966 76.07 62.32 75.58 71.38 78.12
1967 81.98 71.95 87.44 81.10 83.73 82.19
1968
1969
88.78
95.40
83.44
92.28
91.30
95.35
86.05
95.35
89.23
96.63
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7°-95 .. _
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1970 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.66 100.00
1971 112.21 113.20 106.51 102.91 102.113
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29.114. .__ _ _ _
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1972
1973
121.84
134.13
124.24
136.09
115.81
130.23
112.79
122.09
106.99
109.52
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118.16
1974 144.05 146.80 146.28 135.17 120.83 124.153
1975 155.97 161.59 160.70 145.64 1 20.111 126.59
1976 166.77 178.79 168.56 155.65 128.12 131.39
1977 174.47 193.85 181.29 165.02 136.62 1 3?.-§2
1978 184.40 206.13 192.67 169.86 146.615 L4
1979 188.76 220.16 200.53 175.03 156.69
36.3
139.21
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