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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: Processed Food
Fish Meat Dairy Sugar
Products Products Products Cereal
Flour and Bread Confec- Vegetable Fruit and Other
Products tionary Oils Vegetable Food
Products Products _*
1950 18.36 21.83 7.62 24.88 44.00 49.07 34.29 29.65 17.82 18.29 M1951 22.75 24.40 10.10 29.40 49.08 51.86 39.99 33.06 19.97 20.91
1952 25.00 27.36 10.87 30.39 54.48 55.28 44.41 35.79 22.22 2'2_.96
1953 28.68 30.76 12.07 34.14 57.45 58.39 48.69 41.51 24.53 26.01
1954 33.85 30.43 13.44 26.25 62.47 62.11 50.31 45.69 28.50 i9_-79
1955 39.22 33.38 16.20 34.02 69.65 65.84 47.96 41.41 32.99 31-99_
1956 42.99 36.37 23.23 43.28 69.70 69.57 54.63 54.64 36.69 34.38
1957 40.53 40.63 28.93 44.55 72.54 73.91 54.21 60.62 38.44 37.24
1958 41.50 46.07 33.35 53.80 77.1.3 78.26 57.87 52.66 40.86 39.45
1959 44.13 58.10 38.89 59.41 80.26 79.19 61.71 68.16 44.58 42.36%
1960 48.71 60.44 43.98 62.87 79.29 80.12 60.22 56.97 49.18 45.23
1961 51.20 58.02 47.88 82.28 81.52 84.16 62.36 65.32 54.86 418.06
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1962 54.68 66.01 49.59 76.69 81.77 88.20 67.33‘ 76.35 59.60 5?-71_ 11963 59.74 74.84 50.66 61.52 77.64 90.06 71.17 79.07 68.69 57.76 __
1 964 68.65 57.34 55.75 80.89 75.64 93.79 79.63 80.83 70.95 61.62
1965 71.93 72.29 62.74 108.01 83.75 94.41 79.94" 100.11 68.52 66.46 M”
1966 75.78 80.05 68.64 95.34 88.80 96.27 77.28 99.18 74.38 72.23
1967 81.15 89.90 75.51 97.26 90.30 96.89 81.98 109.94 88.56
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1968 83.70 92.75 85.17 105.03 91.51 95.96 ss.o9
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114.43 94.13 s2.59___A
1 969 91.66 91.12 93.42 100.99 92.56 99.07 95.48 107.85 88.06 93.20
1970 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.()0 100.00 100.o0_ 100.00 1 09.00 199-991--
1971 103.60 114.25 100.68 88.54 102.51 103.42 99.79 104.63 107.25 101.86
1972 112.08 122.05 102.08 87.28 105.24 105.90 102.24 101.00 118.03 1052*”
1973 119.84 117.45 109.60 104.97 103.28 105.90 10s.56_ 95.09 124.66 25942
1974 131.02 132.14 118.35 92.86 100.98 106.21 112.81 122.08 133.31
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1975 145.49 139.28 121.41 101.98 98.02 109.32 112.12 119.52 137.62 1129 11976 152.41 120.02 120.89 91.15 94.96 112.11 1 16.95 97.70 128.63 119.50
1977 150.43 131.38 125.61 117.97 104.54 111.18 121.93 103.16 134.18 “T1971
1978 155.08 138.46 127.36 119.70 102.10 114.29 127.66_ 103.67 130.18 19.991 .9-
1979 164.99 139.09 127.82 104.69 106.22 114.91 130.15 97.73 141.33 118.39
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