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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 B-8.
USSR: Derivation of 1970 Average Prices For Grain Fed
Average
Realized
Prices
(rubles
per ton)
Percentage Distribution of Grain by Type
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
Wheat 103 15.3 20.5 27.7 36.1
Rye 116 8.0 6.2 2.3 2.4
Buckwheat 306 4.0 3.6 3.6 '
2.4 3.2 2.9 2.8 2.2 1.4 0.9 0.6 0.8 0.7 ‘
0.2 0.2
Corn 138 25.5 21.2 21.1 17.8 17.3 33.3 25.6 16.9 27.2 18.4 18.9 31.3 23.2 27.9 13.;
Oats 82 38.2 32.0 35.9 34.6 36.6 2_e.s 28.0 41.8 29.0 39.2 20.5 14.8 8.1 8.5 5.1
Barley 81 18.1 23.5 24.3 29.4 27.0 2‘s.3 28.8 27.9 30.9 30.4 26.7 17.0 26.0 44.0 27.8
Millet 81 6.2 15.2 9.0 12.6 13.7 8.2 12.3 6.1 7.9 4.6 5.8 3.9 2.5 2.7 2.5
Pulses 113 4.9 3.0 4.5 2.8 1.5 2.6 1.4 3.5 3.0 4.8 3.6 4.8 9.4 16.2 11.7
Other 61 3.1 1.5 1.7 .0.3 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.6 0.7 1.8 0.6 0.7 0.1 0.5 0.2
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Average price
(rubles per ton)
106 102 103 98 99. 107 102 97 101 95 101 109 106 103 102
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Wheat 103 21.1 52.6 27.6 38.7 22.2 37.6 37.3 31.9 39.6 19.0 18.3 28.1 29.9 40.5 32.6
Rye 116 12.4 1.0 1.6 4.0 0.5 2.4 2.1 0.7 5.3 2.7 2.7
Buckwheat 306 1.1 0.4 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.2 0.3 0.2
Corn 138 12.7 7.0 12.3 8.7 14.4 7.8 8.6 13.2 10.8 12.3 17.4 12.7 11.7 12.0 18.7
Oats 82 10.6 7.9 15.8 11.8 15.2 12.3 13.9 12.9 9.9 12.0 15.8 10.0 14.2 9.5 11.0
Barley 81 28.8 23.4 30.2 27.0 35.6 32.4 30.8 35.0 32.2 42.9 42.8 40.8 38.7 31.4 35.3
Millet 81 2.2 ‘2.1 3.1 1.7 2.9 0.9 0.8 1.0 2.0 1.4 0.9 0.2 0.2
Pulses 113 10.7 5.5 8.3 6.9 8.3 6.3 5.9 5.9 4.4 6.6 5.4 4.5 5.1 3.6 2.3
Other 61 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 l00.0_l00.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Average price 103 100 100 100
(rubles per ton)
99 97 97 98 98 96 97 97 96 99 100
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