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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) Index: 1970= 100
Gross Sector Output Indexes: Construction Materials
Cement Concrete Wall Asbestos Roofing Construction Other Glass
Materials Cement Material Ceramics Materials and
for
Construction
Porcelain
1950 9.38 1.29 25.18 8.84 21.41 6.01 16.58 25.46
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1951 11.18 1.69 30.67 11.43 23.76 8.62 19.71 22.80
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1952 13.04 2.09 35.40 14.37 26.99 11.9? 22.97 11.~E+@:W
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1953 15.18 2.19 39.89 17.49 30.40 15.97 26.98 26.90
1954 17.94 3.08 44.48 21.37 33.43 20.772 31.80 11.-58 fl.-.
1955 20.45 5.27 49.41 25.04 37.77 27.17 38.88 3§l5 _.
1956 22.04 8.83 51.50 29.88 40.19 32.81 42.01 41.65
1957 26.96 13.89 60.90 34.93 43.56 39.13 45.85 ii _4:*_-§9_fi-*.
1958 31.71 19.71 72.70 38.90 48.60 44.12 54.02 49.67’ hi,‘
1959 37.06 26.28 82.12 42.00 51.72 46.44 61.48 54.42
1 960 42.51 33.65 86.84 48.23 56.24 51.7—2 68.55 5 iii-
1961 48.11 40.42 88.34 54.64 59.56 57.53 72.86
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1962 55.28 47.55 85.66 60.76 63.71 62.81 72.94 68.19
1963 61.60 52.42 82.92 63.12 68.40 69.24 72.93 1€1.%]fT :1
1 964 67.21 57.88 83.56 66.55 74.59 74.50 73.17 "~23 W-
1965 74.37 66.28 85.06 69.36 81.17 77.39 77.77 79.10
1966 82.13 75.67 88.73 76.16 86.73 802-1 80.89 3 l____@__
1967 87.00 83.20 94.31 82.07 90.49 84.08 87.24
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84.80
1968 90.56 87.11 95.52 87.05 88.62 87.52 91.45 £1511" 7 7 v
1 969 93.35 90.85 94.89 88.73 94.53 92.41 91.79 _?’_1.-5%.... . 2
1970 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 10018) 109-90 _. ..19.<><>..--
1971 106.30 106.72 103.18 105.61 102.65 105.43 110.14 104.71
1972 111.05 112.54 105.76 111.36 106.25 109.6_2 116.48 11’3.48wv M
1973 117.11 119.88 108.61 118.35 116.74 115.68 124.58 121.66
1974 123.53 126.22 109.78 124.87 126.27 120.40 130.65
1975 131.59 132.37 112.06 132.66 131.96 127.1_7 134.22
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1976 134.15 137.27 112.11 138.77 141.34 129.91 141.06
1977 136.67 139.89 1 10.43 125.27 137.81 136.47 1 45.1 3
147.89
155.25% W _ N
1978 137.76 141.91 109.23 126.44 140.06 142.8_7 151.82 l°L§§3”__.
1979 133.20 139.16 104.37 127.08 131.44 139.88 158.74 166.77
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