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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.
Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 Tflbié 1 Percent Average Annual Rate of Growth of National Product for Selected OECD Countries (GDP) and for the USSR (GNP) 1951-55 8 1956-60 1961-65 1966-70 1971-75 1976-79 195139 Total OECD NA NA 5.2 4.8 3.1 4.0 NA or which Canada 5.2 4.0 5.7 4.8 5.0 3.7 4.8 United States 4.2 2.3 4.6 3.1 2.3 4.4 3.4 Japan 7.2 8.6 10.0 12.2 5.0 5.9 8.3 Australia 3.8 4.0 4.8 6.0 3.5 2.4 4.2 New Zealand 3.8 4.0 4.9 2.7 4.0 0.3 3.3 Finland 5.0 4.1 4.8 4.8 3.9 2.5 4.2 France 3.7 5.0 5.8 5.4 4.0 3.7 4.6 West Germany 9.2 6.5 5.0 4.4 2.1 4.0 5.1 Italy 5.6 5.5 5.2 6.2 2.4 3.8 4.8 Netherlands 5.9 4.0 4.8 5.5 3.2 3.1 4.4 Norway 3.8 3.3 4.8 3.7 4.6 4.2 4.1 Spain 5.2 3.2 8.5 6.2 5.5 2.5 5.3 Sweden 3.4 3.4 5.2 3.9 2.7 1.1 3.4 Switzerland 4.9 4.3 5.2 4.2 0.8 0.9 3.5 Turkey 8.1 4.6 4.8 6.6 7.5 4.1 6.0 United Kingdom 3.9 2.6 3.1 2.5 2.0 2.4 2.7 USSR 5.5 5.9 5.0 5.2 3.7 3.0 4.8 8 Data in column 1 for Japan and the United Kingdom are for 1953- 55; for Finland, France, West Germany, Italy, and the Nether- lands—l952-55; and for New Zealand and Spain-—l955 only. The corresponding data in column 7 are for 1953-79, 1952-79, and 1955- 79, respectively. NA = not available. Sources: OECD data are from National Accounts izf OECD Countries, OECD, Paris, 1981, except for the value for total OECD for 1961-65. The latter value is from the 1980 edition of the same publication. USSR data are from table A-5. 20 Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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