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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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T3b|€ C-9 Thousand tons
USSR: Imports of Vegetables
Year Fresh Canned Vegetables Total 4
Vegetables“
Pastes and Converted
5 _!i2!515-]_5_5 555555633-§.5_5 22656-§55-_5
1968* vW1i§9.4i"A _382.5 _ fi5i1.9
1269 526.15-95.52-555-231-65_-___555-1§2;155 5_6.66-1
7
1970 163.4 271.9 448.6 612.0
5 5
_ -__‘l§52_555__
1_97_1w310.0 ____§327.5g __“A 5405 s50.4___ g
1957525 35§§:§555 5 __3§Z39____ -- "ll?-3°15 .-fi55L"5__5
1973 235.6 366.8 605.2 840.8
197*4*__2$_1.5 g__>_g_354._1_ _g___5_s_4.3__ 865.8
l2575___515£4Q__.._5gi*.%-§__5 55 555.5_i§€;L5 5. 5&1?-§_55 5
1976 185.7 382.2 630.6 816.3
159315555196-6 @.6_g*"7:76‘9L2 5. 666.-:6..-”
___182.4 428.7 707.4 889.9
1979 147.1 451.0 744.2 891.3 _
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1979: Vneshnya_vat0rg0v1_va SSSR v 1979 g.. (hereafter Vnesh lorg
and the year), p. 42. ~
1977-78: Vnesh rorg I978, pp. 41-42
1975-76: Vnesh [org I976, p. 43.
1973-74: Vnesh t0rg1974, p. 50.
1971-72: Vnesh lorg I972, p. 47.
1969-70: Vnesh lorg I970, p. 45.
1967-68: Vnesh torg I968, pp. 45-56.
1950, 1955-66: Vnesh torg 1918-1966, pp. 111-113. _
b Sum of number of cans of vegetables converted to tons and the
quantity of pastes and purees, given in tons, from sources in (a)
above. The number of cans of vegetables is converted to tons using
the standard Soviet size, 400 grams per can. See, for example, Vnesh
torg I972, p. 47, which presents the data in both number of cans and
thousand tons.
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Converted to quantities of vegetables required to produce the
canned vegetables and pastes and purees using the coefficient, 1.65
tons of vegetables required to produce 1.00 tons of canned
vegetables. See L.V. Opatskiy, Razmeshcheniye pishchevoy pro-
myshlennosti SSSR, Moscow, 1958, p. 98.
<1 Sum of fresh vegetables and converted vegetables.
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