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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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  • 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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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.
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